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  • Pirates of Penance

    Swift heads to Manchester to observe the Conservative Party Conference

  • Mark my words: The next few days - make or break for the Tories?

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks forward to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. "The media will no doubt portray the next few days as make or break for Kemi’s leadership. But I think it’s rather more existential than that - it’s now pretty much make or break for whether the Conservative Party matters at all."

     

  • Mark my words: I'm not a number, I'm a free man

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, explains why compulsory digital ID cards are a solution looking for a problem. "Starmer’s ID scheme is yet another means of empowering the Blob over the citizenry. I’ll work with anyone and everyone to defeat it." 

     

  • Man with a plan

    Our correspondent hears good things from Andrew Griffith MP, but has some remaining doubts

  • Mark my words: Don't start a revolution. Stop one

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, says that he understands why some people say, "What we need is a revolution." But the challenge is not to burn things down - rather it is to walk things back.

     

  • Reeves of Grass

    Our writer ruminates on the impossible situation that Chancellor Reeves has created for herself 

  • Mark my words: Houston, we have lift off!

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, attended the launch of a new paper at the Prosperity Institute last week. Read why he thinks it is a game changer. 

     

  • Graves of academe

    Our scribbler reflects on what we can learn about our universities from reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk

  • Too much Mandy

    What can we learn from the fall of Mandelson?

  • All's welfare in love and politics

    Swift argues that Popular Conservatism is our best hope for welfare reform

  • Angela's Ashes

    Lately return'd from his summer pursuits, our scribe reflects on the demise of Big Ange

  • Fighting for a Free Future

    Former senior politician, Steve Baker, writes for PopCon about his new project - FFF - a non-partisan project in public policy, ideas and strategy.