Neville Chamberlain - a man whose reputation has languished for too long 29th November 2019 On 28 November, Alistair Lexden contributed to a run of letters in The Daily Telegraph putting the case for Neville Chamberlain’s handling of the Munich crisis... Articles
Comfort for Prince Andrew 25th November 2019 Alistair Lexden recounted what happened to an earlier Duke of York in a letter published in The Times on November 25. Sir, The current Duke of York is not the... Articles
Lloyd George and the Versailles Treaty 100 years on 21st November 2019 In February, Alistair Lexden addressed the annual conference of the Lloyd George Society on the collapse of his coalition government in 1922. The text can be... Articles
Costing Labour's Manifesto 11th November 2019 The main front-page article in the Financial Times on November 6 was devoted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s fury over the Treasury’s refusal to cost... Articles
Bercow, Buckingham and the Lords 10th November 2019 The convention that the major parties do not put up candidates against a Commons Speaker seeking re-election is widely believed to be of long-standing; in fact... Articles
Was George IV a bad king? 6th November 2019 George IV has had few admirers. He is remembered for running up colossal debts, becoming grossly fat, feuding constantly with his father, George III, and... Articles
Unfulfilled hopes after the First World War 5th November 2019 It was not, as everyone hoped a century ago, ‘the war to end all wars.’ The League of Nations has frequently been blamed for failing to fulfill the world’s hope... Articles
December elections 31st October 2019 Alistair Lexden recalled three previous December contests in a letter published in The Times on October 31, the day that the Bill providing for an election on... Articles
The Prime Minister and the union with Northern Ireland 29th October 2019 In an oral question in the Lords on 28 October—his last before the general election--Alistair Lexden returned to an issue about which he has always felt... Articles