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 great political philosopher 19th February 2019 An article in The Times on February 14 featured the brilliant comic writer, Richmal Crompton, whose famous William books, of which some 12 million have been... Articles
The Carlton Club meeting and the fall of the Lloyd George coalition in October 1922 14th February 2019 These dramatic events were discussed by Alistair Lexden at a dinner in the Carlton Club in February 2018 (see below). He considered them at greater length in a... Recent News
The mistaken critics of independent schools 8th February 2019 An obsessive preoccupation with a few, well-known independent schools produces a wholly misleading impression of the overall state of independent education in... Articles
Brexit and the Belfast Agreement 7th February 2019 The government says that the 1998 Belfast Agreement will not be weakened in any way by Brexit. But in its current form, the notorious backstop will inflict... Articles
Sibling couples - Rebuking the Government 3rd February 2019 In a Lords debate on 1 February, Alistair Lexden returned briefly to an issue on which he has spoken out strongly in recent months, most notably in speeches on... Speeches
The truth about Stanley Baldwin and appeasement 31st January 2019 Detailed research by historians has shattered the long prevalent myth that Baldwin failed to stand up to Hitler. However, the truth has yet to be fully... Articles
Monarchs and politics 30th January 2019 Widely reported public comments by the Queen on 24 January urging tolerance and respect for differing views—thought to have been prompted by Brexit turmoil—led... Recent News
Two years' deadlock in Northern Ireland 28th January 2019 In an oral question in the Lords on 24 January, Alistair Lexden returned to an issue which has raised on a number of occasions: the grave damage being done in... Speeches
Bishop Bell - Complete justice denied after second inquiry 25th January 2019 For three years Alistair Lexden has been part of a campaign to establish the truth about allegations of child sex abuse made, long after his death over sixty... Recent News
