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
Costing Labour's Manifesto 11th November 2019 The main front-page article in the Financial Times on November 6 was devoted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s fury over the Treasury’s refusal to cost... Articles
Bercow, Buckingham and the Lords 10th November 2019 The convention that the major parties do not put up candidates against a Commons Speaker seeking re-election is widely believed to be of long-standing; in fact... Articles
Rights for sibling couples - restating the case 6th November 2019 On 5 November, the last day before Parliament was dissolved, Alistair Lexden returned to an issue which has preoccupied him a great deal in the last two years... Speeches
Was George IV a bad king? 6th November 2019 George IV has had few admirers. He is remembered for running up colossal debts, becoming grossly fat, feuding constantly with his father, George III, and... Articles
Unfulfilled hopes after the First World War 5th November 2019 It was not, as everyone hoped a century ago, ‘the war to end all wars.’ The League of Nations has frequently been blamed for failing to fulfill the world’s hope... Articles
Northern Ireland Budget 1st November 2019 Billions of pounds were approved for public expenditure in Northern Ireland after no more a short debate in the Lords on 31 October. This illustrated vividly... Recent News
December elections 31st October 2019 Alistair Lexden recalled three previous December contests in a letter published in The Times on October 31, the day that the Bill providing for an election on... Articles
The Prime Minister and the union with Northern Ireland 29th October 2019 In an oral question in the Lords on 28 October—his last before the general election--Alistair Lexden returned to an issue about which he has always felt... Articles
Super Saturdays 19th October 2019 The momentous Commons debate on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal on October 19 was dubbed ‘ Super Saturday’ by MPs and commentators. What were the precedents for it... Articles
