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Fundamental questions are being asked about our education system, which has been seriously affected by the pandemic. The Times has established an Education...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a stupendous building was designed to celebrate the British Empire, which was then nearing the height of its power...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 31 May, two days after Boris Johnson’s marriage to Carrie Symonds. SIR - Boris Johnson is the...

In this essay, which was noted in The Times on May 19, Alistair Lexden reflects on how Lord Salisbury (1830-1903), the last prime minister to sit in the House...

Have fees at independent schools increased so much in recent years that middle-class families can no longer afford them? The claim is often made. Alistair...

The row over who paid for the redecoration of the Downing Street flat which Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds led Alistair Lexden to explain, in a letter...

Benjamin Disraeli, first and last Earl of Beaconsfield, died on this day 140 years ago at the age of seventy-six from bronchitis contracted three weeks earlier...

An article in The Times on April 12 deplored Downing Street’s failure to give adequate consideration to the interests of the devolved parliaments and...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on April 10, the day after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death. SIR – Parliament did not always treat the...