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
Too many Privy Counsellors 29th December 2018 On a number of occasions in the last few years, Alistair Lexden has drawn attention to a neglected example of unduly generous prime ministerial patronage. He... Articles
Two great injustices 21st December 2018 Throughout the year, Alistair Lexden has expressed outrage about the damage done to the reputations of a former Prime Minister and a world-famous Anglican... Speeches
Lessons from the confidence vote in Mrs May 14th December 2018 The main lesson perhaps is that an incumbent leader needs an overwhelming majority in order to silence his or her critics, and bring the Party back under... Articles
New publications on Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin 12th December 2018 Alistair Lexden has just published booklets on the two Conservative leaders who dominated British politics between the two world wars. The first, Stanley... Articles
Justice for Ted Heath - support in the Lords grows 12th December 2018 Over recent months Alistair Lexden has been making the case for an independent review of the investigation conducted by the Wiltshire police, known as Operation... Speeches
One Nation - Disraeli never said it 7th December 2018 For years Alistair Lexden, the Conservative Party’s official historian, has been correcting the mistake that is constantly being made in attributing the famous... Articles
Hero in war, hopeless in politics 5th December 2018 A report in The Daily Telegraph on November 29 about a famous First World War painting prompted the following letter from Alistair Lexden, which was published... Articles
School bullies 23rd November 2018 This was the headline over a leading article in The Times on November 17, stemming from a report in the paper that “local councils have been blocking special... Articles
Publish those letters 19th November 2018 In a letter published in The Times on November 19, Alistair Lexden called for an end to the secrecy surrounding the process by which a vote of no confidence can... Articles
