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
Clapping in Parliament 2nd June 2015 The new intake of SNP MPs were ticked off by the Speaker for breaching parliamentary convention by clapping during the debate on the Queen’s Speech at the end... Articles
The Tories and Northern Ireland 29th May 2015 As a strong supporter of the Union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Alistair Lexden believes that the Conservative Party must be directly involved in... Recent NewsArticles
Queen’s Speech 28th May 2015 On 28 May Alistair Lexden was a guest on LBC’s breakfast programme where he discussed some of the main themes of the Queen’s Speech at the start of the new... Recent News
Prince of Wales’s pilgrimage 22nd May 2015 On May 20 the Prince of Wales visited Mullaghmore , Co. Sligo where his great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, was murdered by the IRA on 27 August 1979. In a letter... Articles
Celebrating 75 glorious years of West Lodge School in Sidcup 21st May 2015 On May 20 the excellent West Lodge School in Sidcup—where Alistair Lexden presented prizes last summer—marked the 75 th anniversary of its opening in 1940. (His... Recent News
Growth of the Privy Council 15th May 2015 It is a little known fact that the Privy Council, the Queen’s formal body of advsiers, has increased massively in size during recent years. Research by Alistair... ArticlesRecent News
Cameron and the record books 11th May 2015 On May 7 David Cameron returned to Downing Street with more seats and a higher share of the national vote than in 2010. That was a remarkable double achievement... Articles
Towards federalism? 6th May 2015 Support for a new federal constitution for the UK could help cement a Labour/ SNP deal, Alistair Lexden argued in a letter in The Times on May 6 . Articles
Labour and the Lib Dems 6th May 2015 In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on May 6 (see below), Alistair Lexden drew attention to some key constitutional points that had not featured... Articles
