Speeches

In March, a superb portrait of Arthur Balfour by the famous portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo, in Trinity College, Cambridge was seriously damaged by vandals...

Between 1967 and 2000 - when homosexuality was no longer a criminal offence in civilian life - some 20,000 gay people were thrown out of the Armed Forces...

On 11 March, Alistair Lexden continued his long campaign to get the Home Office to put an end to the injustice that has been done to the reputation of Ted Heath...

An oral Question in the Lords on 29 February drew attention to the higher costs that small charities will face because of the impending increase in the national...

On 27 January, the Lords held a general debate on Northern Ireland. It took place on what is known as an Humble Address to the King, a procedure through which...

A Lords cross-party select committee, of which Alistair Lexden was a member, spent several months last year looking in detail at the way pupils between the ages...

For over five years Alistair Lexden has been campaigning alongside others to get an independent inquiry into a deeply flawed police investigation of child...

George Osborne, Chairman of the British Museum Trustees, has been in discussion with the Greek Government for some time about a loan. Alistair Lexden brought...

The Labour Party want us to believe that they deserve all the credit, constantly boasting that Nye Bevan was the sole architect of the NHS. But Labour only...