Speeches

Between 2014 and 2016, the Metropolitan Police hounded a number of prominent people as a result of false allegations of historical child sex abuse and murder...

Homosexuals are treated as criminals in 37 of the 53 countries of the Commonwealth. In some of them extremely harsh punishments are available to the courts...

Much has been said and written about the immense damage that has been done by many police officers, who made public the names of individuals suspected of sex...

Six weeks ago, a fresh round of talks—the latest of many—began in Northern Ireland on the restoration of the devolved government which collapsed two and a half...

On 4 June, the Lords held a debate to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. In his contribution, Alistair Lexden spoke principally about Churchill’s role. Follow...

Alistair Lexden was asked to give a short address at a reception in the House of Lords on 20 May to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of Mrs Thatcher’s...

Britain’s Police and Crime Commissioners, forty in number, were elected for the first time on pitifully small turn-outs in 2012. Surveys show that nearly half...

Widespread outrage has been expressed about the Brunei government’s introduction of Sharia law, under which homosexuals can be stoned to death. On 11 April...

Having raised the key areas of discrimination suffered by cohabiting sibling couples in an oral question in the Lords on 21 March ( see below), Alistair Lexden...