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
The Primrose League - a priceless Tory asset before 1914 1st June 2017 Alistair Lexden was recently commissioned to write a thousand word article on the Primrose League for a new independent website that will be launched in due... Articles
Catching the Editor's eye 24th May 2017 A point made in Alistair Lexden’s piece about the Conservative election manifesto (see below) appeared in TMS, The Times diary column, on May 24 under the... Articles
The 2017 Conservative Manifesto - the new and the old 19th May 2017 The general election manifesto, published on 18 May, breaks with Tory tradition in at least two major respects. First, one of its central pledges is to create a... Articles
A tragic Tory leader and his diaries 19th May 2017 Few people today have even heard of Sir Stafford Northcote. He was a prominent late nineteenth century politician whose career ended in failure after nine years... Articles
The most personalised Tory campaign 16th May 2017 At this election the name and image of the Tory party leader are everywhere-- on battlebuses, campaign literature, advertisements and so on. The Conservative... Articles
Misrepresenting Thatcher 16th May 2017 A new statue of Margaret Thatcher has been completed; it is due to be erected in Parliament Square. Alistair Lexden does not think much of it, as he made clear... Articles
Sutherland's portrait of Churchill 13th May 2017 In June 2016 (see previous article), Alistair Lexden published an article about Graham Sutherland’s acclaimed, but deeply controversial portrait of Winston... Recent News
Nazis and Royals 9th May 2017 The issue of access to the royal archives has become a subject of growing concern among historians and journalists in recent months. Alistair Lexden, who has... Articles
Speaking to the whole UK 5th May 2017 That was the theme of the leading article on the Conservative party in The Spectator on 29 April. There are clear signs that the party is making significant... Articles
