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Alistair Lexden prepared the following text for a short debate in the Lords on 16 September on the Church of England’s Safeguarding (Code of Practice) Measure...

On 7 September, Alistair Lexden spoke of the injustices done in the past to homosexual members of the Armed Forces ( see below). Exactly a week later, on 14...

Writing as a guest columnist in the September issue of The Independent Schools Magazine, Alistair Lexden set out some of the points that supporters of...

There are 39 counties which have been in existence since Norman times, a thousand years ago. As a result of local government changes in the 20th century, new...

Alistair Lexden (then Alistair Cooke) wrote to The Daily Telegraph about Afghanistan in September 2001. The paper asked him to reflect in a further letter on...

The following letter was published in The New Statesman on 10 September. Philip Collins (The Public Square, 27 August) states that Wellington “became prime...

Over several centuries, many homosexual members of the Armed Forces – it is impossible to know exactly how many — were convicted and punished under appalling...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 3 September. SIR - Charles Moore (Notebook, August 31) is right to castigate the playwright who has...

Ted Dexter, a memorable England cricket captain in the early 1960s, had an unfortunate encounter with the electorate in a Cardiff seat at the 1964 general...