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The modern histories of the Conservative Party do not provide a full account of how it first came into being as the Tory Party in the early 1680s. This essay...

Few people have come under more sustained attack . Some have accused him of being a Nazi collaborator. The King’s side of the story, drawing on hitherto...

Writing in The Spectator about the State Opening of Parliament on 7 November, Charles Moore, now a colleague in the Lords, mentioned that he was seated near...

Ted Heath has been betrayed by the Home Office and the government – we need a new independent review of the allegations against him. Read Lord Lexden's most...

Labour want to slap VAT on independent school fees. This would be a tax on education and learning. There is no precedent for such a thing in British history...

In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on 7 November, Alistair Lexden questioned whether Churchill would have approved of the strident way in which some...

A new history of Britain between the wars by Simon Heffer covers a huge amount of ground. It deserves particular praise for showing how greatly the country...

Alistair Lexden has a long connection with the independent schools. He is currently President of the Independent Schools Association (ISA), which has some 650...

There has been much speculation about this Liberal prime minister, who held the highest political office briefly in 1894-5. Suspicions intensified after a...