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In February, the Lords Constitution Committee, of which Alistair Lexden is a member, published a major report on the constitutional implications of coalition...

Queen Victoria’s taste for nudity was confined strictly to paintings. She would been horrified that Spencer Tunick has invoked her in support of his ventures (...

Richard Ryder (‘The poor man in his castle’, Apr.26) confines Queen Mary’s war-time tyranny at Badminton to the house, but it also extended to the estate. ‘ “...

Sir, Halifax and Churchill were not so far apart in May 1940 as Daniel Finkelstein suggests(Apr 26). They agreed that the war should be ended through a...

In a speech in Northern Ireland on April 16, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, said: “I would like to thank my colleagues Lord...

Under both the last government and this one, secret letters were sent to some 200 Irish terrorist suspects, informing them that they were not currently wanted...

April 19 was for a nearly a century a key date in the Conservative Party’s calendar. It marked Primrose Day, when wreaths were laid and flowers worn in memory...

The individual visits that Alistair Lexden makes to schools to talk about the work of the House of Lords are recorded on the website. On March 31 the Lord...

Continuing his round of visits under the auspices of the excellently organised Lord Speaker’s “Peers in Schools” Outreach Programme, Alistair Lexden went on...