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Alistair Lexden has joined a large cross-party initiative in both Houses of Parliament to condemn the Chinese government’s systematic oppression of its Uighur...

A rather fine country house in Shropshire with a shady past found itself in the news again for unwelcome reasons on 25 August. The Times reported that Chyknell...

Both in August 1945 and ever since, some people have said that atom bombs should never have been used. Winston Churchill himself answered the critics during a...

Writing as a former adviser to Airey Neave and friend of Ian Gow, Alistair Lexden issued the following statement on August 6. “Last week’s honours list included...

On 30 July, after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two women, the judge told Charlie Elphicke, the former MP for Dover, that he faced “the very real...

In an oral question in the Lords on 22 July, Alistair Lexden asked: “since social distancing could have been arranged so easily at the outset, was it really...

In a recent book review in The Spectator magazine, Alan Johnson, the former Labour cabinet minister, claimed that the first newspaper to sell a million copies...

Robert Clive (1725-74) rose from obscurity in Shropshire to acquire fame and fortune in India. He was a most gifted military commander. At the Battle of Plassey...

On 8 July, an important cross-party Lords Select Committee, of which Alistair Lexden was a member, published a major report on the electoral system, following a...