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
Presenting prizes to outstanding students 7th April 2019 Each spring Alistair Lexden hosts an awards ceremony on the terrace of the House of Lords for the 24 independent sixth-form colleges which comprise the Council... Recent News
Sir Robert Peel and Theresa May 5th April 2019 As the Brexit crisis deepened still further at the start of April , an earlier Tory crisis was recalled in the media—that caused by Peel’s repeal of the Corn... Articles
Centenary of the Amritsar massacre 5th April 2019 On 13 April 1919 British Indian Army troops under the command of Col. Reginald Dyer fired into a crowd that had gathered in a public garden at Amritsar in the... Articles
On the fortieth anniversary of Airey Neave's murder 30th March 2019 The article below was published on the ConservativeHome website on 30 March. In it, Alistair Lexden reviews a new biography, and writes about his own memories... Articles
The worst Prime Minister 28th March 2019 In its editorial on 23 March, The Spectator declared that ‘Lord North is one of the few beneficiaries of the May premiership: he is now no longer the worst... Articles
Airey Neave - Personal and historical elections forty years after his murder 27th March 2019 The following article, published in Parliament’s House Magazine on 25 March, draws on both Alistair Lexden’s personal recollections and on an admirable... Articles
Justice for sibling couples - a response from the Government 25th March 2019 Continuing his campaign to secure justice for sibling couples by means of an oral question in the Lords on 21 March , Alistair Lexden asked the government... Speeches
Judging the House of Lords fairly 23rd March 2019 A strong case can be made for replacing the existing unelected House of Lords by an upper chamber with a membership determined by the votes of the people. But... Articles
Another stage in the 'Justice for siblings couples' campaign 18th March 2019 On 15 March, Alistair Lexden returned to his campaign on behalf of sibling couples who have made their lives together in jointly owned property. The Second... Speeches
