The key to reducing hip fractures Monday, 20 October, 2025 Since the 1990s, fracture liaison services, provided by specialist teams within NHS Trusts, have been assisting people at risk of sustaining severe fractures caused by osteoporosis, and ensuring they receive the appropriate treatment. These services are, however, only available in certain areas. The Government is committed to making them universal by 2030 - just five years away - but significant... Recent NewsSpeeches
Labour widens its attack on independent schools 29th January 2025 On 29 January, the Lords debated a Government Bill which will remove the rates relief that independent schools with charitable status have always enjoyed... Recent NewsSpeeches
Can we trust the National Trust? 23rd January 2025 In the view of many people—of whom Alistair Lexden is one—the answer to this question is: not entirely. Of course, the National Trust does much valuable work... Articles
Book review - How the churches in Britain reacted to Hitler 16th January 2025 The way in which the British Churches faced up to Nazi evil is analysed in a remarkable book, which Alistair Lexden reviewed for Parliament’s magazine The House... Articles
One-nation Conservatism again 13th January 2025 Alistair Lexden returned to one of his frequent topics–the truth about the origins of One-Nation Conservatism—in an artticle in Parliament’s magazine The House... Articles
Sir Robert Peel and the Tamworth Manifesto 190 years on 11th January 2025 At the invitation of the Peel Society, based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Alistair Lexden gave a lecture at the Castle Hotel, Tamworth on 11 January to mark the... Articles
Failure of a police watchdog 19th December 2024 Operation Midland was one of the most disastrous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police. Between 2014 and 2016, police officers mercilessly... Recent NewsSpeeches
The 1922 Committee's model chairman 17th December 2024 The following letter, published in the Christmas edition of The Spectator, was prompted by a review of Graham Brady’s memoir, Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies and the... Articles
John Prescott and Anthony Eden 13th December 2024 Some of the obituaries of John Prescott, who died on 20 November, referred to his early career as a ship’s steward. In January 1957, he found himself looking... Articles
Institutional Memory - a profile in The House magazine 12th December 2024 Lord Lexden has been profiled in Parliament's The House magazine this month. “No aged person should be pessimistic,” says Lord Lexden. The Conservative Party’s... Articles
