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
Neutral on the Union? 6th December 2020 Alistair Lexden has criticised the Government in the Lords for failing to counter the serious Nationalist threat in Scotland with a vigorous and determined... Speeches
Conservatives and AIDS 1st December 2020 World AIDS Day falls on 1 December each year. Thirty-five years ago in 1985, deaths from AIDS in Britain seemed likely to reach, and remain, at enormously high... Recent News
Defenders of the Slave Trade 29th November 2020 On November 21, an article in The Times mentioned the first announcements of births, marriages and deaths to appear in the paper when it began publication in... Recent News
Young people and the ballot box 27th November 2020 On 8 October, Alistair Lexden backed a successful cross-party Lords amendment to the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill to help young people coming up to the age... Recent News
Continuing Unionist despair in the Lords 24th November 2020 The Government gave a poor account of itself in answer to an oral question from Alistair Lexden about Scotland’s position in the United Kingdom on 4 November... Recent News
Carrie's novel inspiration? 22nd November 2020 In a letter published in The Sunday Times on November 22, Alistair Lexden wondered if a famous novel had contributed to the extraordinary events at 10 Downing... Articles
Who was Bonar Law? 20th November 2020 Asquith, the Liberal Party leader, is said to have described Bonar Law (1858-1923), in much quoted words, as “the unknown Prime Minister”. Alistair Lexden... Articles
Massive Government defeat in the Lords 13th November 2020 On 9 November, the Lords amended the Government’s controversial Internal Market Bill by removing from it the clauses that would authorise the breaking of... Recent News
The real Neville Chamberlain 9th November 2020 Chamberlain is the most misunderstood statesman in modern British history. Alistair Lexden tackled the misconceptions in his booklet, Neville Chamberlain... Articles
