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  • Mark my words: Trust in politicians reaches a new low

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism looks back at a week where trust in politics and politicians has reached a new low. 

     

  • Mark my words: Thatcherism - a state of mind

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, reflects on the Margaret Thatcher Centre's Academic Symposium which David Starkey and he spoke at. 

     

  • Mark my words: What a year of chaos it has been!

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism looks back at a year of chaos. 

     

  • Mark my words: Is the penny dropping?

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, writes that "it does seem that the penny is beginning to drop amongst both Conservatives and Reformers that the next government will need to focus, above all else, on a Great Restoration of Britain’s core constitutional principles."

     

  • Mark my words: More of this, please

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism looks at campaigning opportunities for the Conservative Party. 

     

  • Mark my words: We are not living in a land flowing with milk and honey

    Standing in for Mark Littlewood, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns of Popular Conservatism says that for too long British ministers have been tied up in quangos, recalcitrant civil servants and international treaties, preventing policies upon which they won power happening. That is why our mission is more important than ever: democracy can only be eroded so far before people rightly demand action.

     

  • Merger mania

    Starmer and Davey - separated at birth?

  • Mark my words: Is there a pathway to recovery?

    "I don’t know who has the harder task in building their way back to success – Manchester United or the Conservatives. Both look like they have a very long way to go."

    Read the latest column from Mark Littlewood, Director of Popular Conservatism. 

     

  • Mark my words: Mission Impossible?

    "To cut through to the public in Britain’s increasingly multi-party system, it’s not enough to simply think things and say things. You need to do things too."

    Read the latest column from Mark Littlewood, Director of Popular Conservatism. 

     

  • Beating around the Bush

    Our scribe engages in some blue on red animus with a fellow hack

  • Mark my words: Heat and light – we need both

    In his latest column, Mark Littlewood, Director of Popular Conservatism, argues that there are opportunities for Kemi and the Conservatives to improve the way the party’s narrative is communicated if they can pivot from being a policy-driven Parliamentary outfit into more of a story-driven campaigning operation.

     

  • Gates of Hell

    Our writer complains that the great UK-EU reset can’t even deliver the one thing he wants