A gay king and his lover Monday, 25 November, 2024 The book review that follows was published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 25 November. Its editor was kind enough to say that “your review of Buckingham is the best thing in the magazine.” The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham By Lucy Hughes-Hallett Published by 4th Estate King James I of England and VI of Scotland(1566-1625) liked men around him, lots of them... Articles
Rules for referendums and Boris Johnson's Scottish failures 11th January 2021 The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 9 January, under the heading “How committed is the PM to saving the Union?” SIR - Nicola Sturgeon... Articles
Protecting school staff 8th January 2021 On Sunday, 3 January Boris Johnson said it was perfectly safe for children to return to school after the holidays; the following day, he said that schools must... Speeches
Boris Johnson's Honours scandal 26th December 2020 Boris Johnson’s second list of new peers this year was published on 23 December. His 52 additions to the Lords in 2020 take the total size of the House to 830... Articles
Churchill and Bevan during the Second World War 22nd December 2020 We look back on the Second World War as a time when the country was united behind Churchill and his national government, a coalition of all parties, in the... Articles
Johnson and sovereignty 21st December 2020 In all the discussion in Parliament and the media about an EU trade deal, one small but central point has been lost to sight. Boris Johnson has said over and... Articles
Who were the first Asians to sit in Parliament? 16th December 2020 Three were elected to the House of Commons, and another became a peer, between 1892 and 1929. Their lives have been told by Lord (Mahomed) Sheikh, a... Articles
Final words on that Thatcher Statue 15th December 2020 On a number of occasions since 2017—most recently on 7 December ( see below)—Alistair Lexden has castigated a truly dreadful statue of Mrs Thatcher. In a letter... Articles
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
Can we trust the National Trust? 8th December 2020 An Act of Parliament, passed in 1937, defined the objectives of the National Trust in the following terms: the preservation of buildings of national interest... Speeches
