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Despite having done no serious calculations, Labour claim that their VAT levy on independent school fees would raise £1.6 billion for state schools. Experts on...

Hitler was bent on war. That may be clear now, but in 1938 it was not obvious to Britain, despite Churchill’s warnings. An important new book charts the work of...

The man in question was George Goschen. The memory lapse on the part of Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Sir Winston, was mentioned by Alistair Lexden in a...

A brilliant collection of them has been republished in an updated edition . Alistair Lexden reviewed it in Parliament’s magazine The House on 29 April. Gimson’s...

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph published on 23 April, Alistair Lexden drew attention to the existence of a copy of Graham Sutherland’s remarkable portrait...

She gave them no peace. A marvellous new book gives the details of her tempestuous relations with them. Alistair Lexden reviewed it in Parliament’s magazine The...

1910 was a year of two general elections, the first in January and the second in December. At both elections the Liberal Party was led by Herbert Asquith, who...

In mid-March the Garrick Club came under intense fire for excluding women from membership. Questions were asked about other well-known London clubs. Some have...

December last year brought the centenary of a General Election which had a double significance: it put an end to Stanley Baldwin’s short-lived first Government...