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These well-known words, quoted by the former cabinet minister, David Davis, in the Commons on 19 January, and directed at Boris Johnson, added to the political...

On 3 January, the Government announced that pardons will be made available for “any repealed or abolished civilian or military offence that was imposed on...

The recent death of Sir John Butterfill, MP for Bournemouth West from 1983 to 2010, led Alistair Lexden to recall the MP's first electoral foray in 1981...

“Lock it up carefully”, Lloyd George said to his mistress and secretary, Frances Stevenson, in her room at No 10, as he handed her the British copy of the...

In 2016, Alistair Lexden joined a number of academics, politicians, lawyers, clerics and writers in a group which was established to refute the Church of...

“Lord Lexden will appreciate this”, said a leading Lib Dem peer, Lord Stoneham, In a Lords debate on 3 November when Alistair Lexden, a Deputy Speaker, was on...

Immense progress had been made since the late 1980s in treating HIV/AIDS. It has long since ceased to be a death sentence, despite the lack of a vaccine. There...

The intolerant, left-wing Black Lives Matter movement is having a pernicious effect on the way British history is perceived. Much publicity has been given...

Votes will start to be cast on 13 April to elect a new Lord Speaker who will take over from Lord Fowler, elected in 2016, before the end of the month. There is...