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  • 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. 

     

  • Mark my words: Are Reform the real deal?

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, gives his thoughts on the Reform UK Conference 

     

  • Mark my words: Raising the colours

    PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, notes that one sector of our otherwise flatlining economy seems to be thriving. If you’re a manufacturer of flags (specifically, the St George’s Cross or the Union Jack), you have been coining it over the last couple of weeks. Keep all your flags flying high!