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  • Mark my words: Willing the ends but not the means

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, notes that "Labour’s agenda so far has been to hike up taxes on the private sector, increase state spending and to embrace a plethora of new regulations." This should provide an opportunity for Kemi and the Conservative opposition. 

     

  • Mark my words: This is how to hit the ground running

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at Donald Trump's first week back in the White House. 

     

  • Mark my words: Time to take a stance?

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, offers some advice to Kemi Badenoch. "I suspect I’m not alone in beginning to feel that I’ve now seen enough of the trailers and I’m now wanting to see the full feature length movie." 

     

  • Mark my words: Britain is Broken

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood comments that the first few days of 2025 have underscored how thoroughly broken the UK state really is.

     

  • Farmers protest in Beverley against Labour's Family Farm Tax

    Andrew Allison, PopCon's Head of Campaigns, attended a farmers' protest near his home in East Yorkshire on Wednesday. 

     

  • Victorian Values

    Our scribe salutes the bravery of the civil service

  • Charge of the Flight Brigade

    Our scribe reflects on the year past and hazards a look into the future

  • Getting on Mandy

    Mr. Swift examines the apparently irresistible rise of Lord (Peter) Mandelson as he jets off to be ambassador to the United States

  • So. Farewell then, the hereditary peerage

    Our resident scribe bemoans another act of constitutional destruction by the present administration

  • Giant Redwood

    Following our most recent PopConversation with Sir John Redwood, our resident raconteur Swift reviews the discussion 

     

  • Introducing the new PopCon Podcast

    In the first PopCon Podcast, Head of Campaigns, Andrew Allison, talks to Ross Thomson, the former Conservative MP for Aberdeen South from 2017-2019. 

     

  • Mark my words: Reform UK: A trickle or a flood?

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks at Reform UK and argues that there is a route back for the Conservative Party if it becomes unapologetically and emphatically conservative again.