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
A doctor in the house? 9th October 2020 At the White House, American presidents have all their wants supplied; at No 10, prime ministers are not nearly so well served. That was the theme of an... Articles
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Royal D-Day command to Churchill 7th October 2020 On October 3, The Times reported that a former railway station at Droxford in Hampshire, visited by Churchill shortly before D-Day, was about to be sold. Its... Articles
Slave trade obsession comes to Westminster 6th October 2020 On 1 October, The Daily Telegraph reported that the parliamentary art collection, which has already been weeded of many portraits with slave trade connections... Articles
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A Lords Question which precipitated a minister's resignation 17th September 2020 On September 8, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary, plunged Boris Johnson into yet another crisis when he confessed in the House of Commons that the... Recent NewsSpeeches
A rejected peer 11th September 2020 During a short debate in the House of Lords on 7 September, reference was made (inaccurately) to the exclusion of a newly created peer from the House in the... Recent News
Condemning Chinese oppression 9th September 2020 Alistair Lexden has joined a large cross-party initiative in both Houses of Parliament to condemn the Chinese government’s systematic oppression of its Uighur... Recent News
