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  • Mark my words - Explained: My strategy to save Britain

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks back at the two years since PopCon was launched. "In our mission to restore and rescue Britain, stage one is now complete", he says. "Thanks for all your help in supporting PopCon – I’m going to need even more of it in the months ahead."

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    March 20, 2026

  • Mark my words: We have made low growth inevitable

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at today's grim economic figures. "Which policies are “creating the conditions for growth”? I can find none."

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    March 13, 2026

  • Mark my words - The Spring Statement: Both trivial and terrifying

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement, which he describes as "both deeply worrying whilst being almost entirely devoid of content." 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    March 07, 2026

  • Mark my words - Gorton and Denton: Impact and aftermath

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at the result of the Gorton and Denton by-election and what it means for the main political parties. 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    February 28, 2026

  • Remembering Simon Richards - the nicest man in politics

     

    PopCon Newsdesk

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    February 27, 2026

  • Mark my words: The fracturing of the Right

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at Restore Britain now it has been transformed into a political party. 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    February 22, 2026

  • Mark my words: The (non) debate around Sir Jim Ratcliffe

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at the response to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments about Britain being "colonised by immigrants.

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    February 13, 2026

  • Mark my words: Do all roads lead to Gorton and Denton?

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, takes a look at the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    January 23, 2026

  • Mark my words: Jenrick's jump to Reform

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, writes about Robert Jenrick's defection from the Conservatives to Reform UK. 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    January 18, 2026

  • Mark my words: Drifts, shifts and what comes next

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, writes, "Our challenge for next year is to ensure that this proposition – the need for a full unravelling of the Blairite settlement – isn’t just part of a noticeable change in political discourse but becomes cemented as the centrepiece of the next government’s policy platform." 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    December 14, 2025

  • Mark my words: "We don’t like each other, but we hate Starmer more"

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, writes that at the next election it won’t merely be desirable to remove this wretched government from office, it will be a necessity in order to save the United Kingdom. We will need the broadest possible base of support behind a coherent and deliverable agenda.

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    December 05, 2025

  • Mark my words: A Budget from The Blob

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, writes about next week's Budget. "Brace yourself. Wednesday is going to be grim." 

     

    Mark Littlewood

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    November 21, 2025