A gay college Monday, 17 November, 2025 From the 1880s onwards, homosexuals flourished at King’s College, Cambridge. Colourful characters abounded. Simon Goldhill recalls many of them in a new book which Alistair Lexden discussed in the attached review published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 17 November. Queer Cambridge. An Alternative History By Simon Goldhill Published by Cambridge University Press The title is misleading... Articles
Votes for Women 24th October 2015 A new, widely acclaimed film, Suffragette, has stirred interest in the militant campaign to advance the cause of votes for women before the First World War. Articles
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Denis Healey’s Good Turn to the Tories 19th October 2015 In a note published in The Times on October 19, supplementing its obituary of the former Labour Deputy Leader, Alistair Lexden recalled a little incident in... Articles
The High Price of Devolution 15th October 2015 England and Wales have a new libel law which cuts costs for ordinary defendants and protects press freedom more effectively. Northern Ireland has been deprived... Speeches
Corbyn and the Privy Council---Again 13th October 2015 As the controversy over Jeremy Corbyn’s membership of the Privy Council continued, Alistair Lexden returned to the issue in a letter published in the Financial... Articles
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Changing the Conservative Party’s Name 8th October 2015 Should the Party adopt another name? An article published in The Daily Telegraph at the start of the Party Conference argued that it should. That prompted a... Articles
F. E. Smith - A Great Tory Wit 5th October 2015 F. E. Smith, Ist Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930), a brilliant barrister and controversial Tory politician, was famous for his legendary wit, invariably employed... Recent News
Devolution throughout the UK 2nd October 2015 Devolution was first proposed,for Ireland alone, by Gladstone in 1886. A view has grown up among some historians and members of the Liberal Democrats that... Articles
