Bonar Law's remarkable story told in Lexden film 13th January 2021 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... Recent News
Times letters - claiming the record 11th December 2020 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... Recent News
300th letter in the Times 7th December 2020 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... Recent News
Conservatives and AIDS 1st December 2020 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... Recent News
Defenders of the Slave Trade 29th November 2020 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... Recent News
Young people and the ballot box 27th November 2020 On 8 October, Alistair Lexden backed a successful cross-party Lords amendment to the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill to help young people coming up to the age... Recent News
Continuing Unionist despair in the Lords 24th November 2020 The Government gave a poor account of itself in answer to an oral question from Alistair Lexden about Scotland’s position in the United Kingdom on 4 November... Recent News
Massive Government defeat in the Lords 13th November 2020 On 9 November, the Lords amended the Government’s controversial Internal Market Bill by removing from it the clauses that would authorise the breaking of... Recent News
The Union with Scotland "imperilled" 5th November 2020 Is the Union between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom going to survive? A question that would once have been regarded as utterly absurd is now being... Recent News