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On 13 March, the Met was plunged into a fresh crisis when some of its officers overreacted in policing a peaceful vigil on Clapham Common. Their conduct will be...

Alistair Lexden has been closely involved with independent schools since 1997 when he became General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council, which has...

Alistair Lexden has been campaigning in the Lords for some years to try to get the full truth about misconduct by Met officers during the utterly disastrous...

Since the 1920s, the Church of England has had the power to devise its own laws—known as Measures—but they need Parliamentary approval before they can be...

Alistair Lexden provided an introduction to his film about Bonar Law (Conservative Party leader, 1911-21 and 1922-23; Prime Minister, 1922-23) in an article...

The publication of Alistair Lexden’s 300th Times letter on 7 December(see below) led a number of people in the House of Lords and elsewhere to ask whether this...

A letter by Alistair Lexden in The Times on December 7 about a terrible statue of Mrs Thatcher was the 300th that he has had published in the paper, appearing...

World AIDS Day falls on 1 December each year. Thirty-five years ago in 1985, deaths from AIDS in Britain seemed likely to reach, and remain, at enormously high...

On November 21, an article in The Times mentioned the first announcements of births, marriages and deaths to appear in the paper when it began publication in...