Benjamin Harris-Quinney

This week, the Bow Group was a co-sponsor of a major conference on National Conservatism, convened in Rome to honour the contribution to the free world of Pope John Paul II, President Reagan, and Baroness Thatcher.

The evidence for my “fraternal bond” with the Russian President is that I once attended a Christian conference at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. As the now disgraced Tatler Tory crew tried to push me out of the political

Michael Heseltine is the establishment’s oldest hitman, a liberal infiltrator and a traitor to the conservative movement. It’s time for conservatives to hit back hard. A quarter of a century ago Margaret Thatcher was betrayed by many of her closest

Zac Goldsmith’s campaign has been such an embarrassment that senior colleagues were on their way to TV studios to to criticise his performance even while the polls still remained open (admittedly I was doing so six months ago). Goldsmith went

It is true that Peter Hitchens is one of the last public conservatives allowed to exist in Britain. The establishment is apparently willing to tolerate him as a relic, but eagerly waits to consign him to history and prevent any

Last month I watched the celebrated US economist Paul Krugman explain to 2000 people in Las Vegas why debt doesn’t matter. Despite being at a business focused libertarian conference he convinced a sizeable chunk of his audience, by a show

Addressing a crowd of U.S. Senators, think-tanks and European leaders, Nigel Farage brought to Washington the strength of feeling in siding with the Greeks “smashing molotov cocktails into the walls of their parliament” last week. “If I’d been a young

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Marco Rubio addressed two thousand libertarian “Freedom Fest” delegates yesterday evening, to a buoyant reception. Unsurprisingly, in addressing a libertarian, business-focused conference, his speech focused on small government, low taxes and  cutting regulation. Recognising that the conference

Demands to tear down Margaret Thatcher Plaza in the centre of Madrid in Spain are indicative of the left’s new aggressive policy of “cultural editing” – further illustrated by the fact there are plans to replace the square, which only opened last

When Rio Ferdinand accused Andy Grey and Richard Keys of having “pre-historic” views on gender equality, as well as contributing to their firing, apparently he was also setting a standard for future, pre-historic reference. The main takeaway from this summer’s blockbuster

I was railed against last week for being “homophobic” for suggesting last year at a Christian conference that the “LGBT lobby” had become an overly influential facet of British public life, independent from the reality of the wishes of desires of

Two supposedly landmark political events have occurred on the island of Ireland this week. Both were greeted with an element of surprise and excitement and were hailed as great victories for the “progressive movement”, both were inevitable. The referendum in

You might ask why the UK Independence Party ever had Amjad Bashir MEP as a member, but that ship has sailed. The real question now is why, given the serious allegations against him, the Conservative Party has accepted Bashir.

As Prince Andrew becomes the latest figure to be named in an establishment paedophile scandal, the British nation has woken up today to face, yet again, the uncomfortable possibility that they are governed by an elite political and media establishment

The right is rarely a forum for self-congratulation, preferring wary scepticism or angry indolence, but last month was the best month for conservatives in Britain in a very long time, and through the haze of differing party loyalties on the

Even in a week of great political upheaval, politics can be dully predictable. I spent the first part of the week in Madrid for the unveiling of the Margaret Thatcher Plaza, which a vast array of media outlets excitedly reported

The former poet laureate Phillip Larkin once wrote: “Our children will not know it’s a different country. All we can hope to leave them now is money.” It is a dystopian view of a Britain with nothing of value remaining

Despite reams of analysis, many if not most people in Westminster don’t understand why Douglas Carswell defected to UKIP last week. It wasn’t about the EU, it wasn’t about immigration, it wasn’t about a desire to hold on to his

It is often said, because it is true, that what happens in North America politically and economically is a precursor to what will happen in Britain. Conservatism is undergoing a global reawakening after two decades asleep to the scourge of

Last week it was revealed that the Conservative Party’s income from membership has fallen to within £50,000 of UKIP’s, and the average age of a Conservative Party member has risen to 68. At Conservative Party Conference last year, the Bow Group

The worst thing, no, the second worst thing about the paedophile and sex abuse scandal that is currently engulfing Westminster is that it isn’t news to most people who have worked in and around Parliament for even a few years.

It is curious that of the three major parliamentary party leaders, the most pressure has thus far been on Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband who, despite their poor performance, nevertheless remain on steady course to form a “Progressive Coalition” in

One of the biggest consistent drivers for people to vote Conservative is that it has always been the anti-taxation party, believing by core ideology that tax is a vexatious barrier to prosperity, or at best a necessary evil that should

The Conservative Party sits dazed, confused and undecided, at a crossroads. Despite pulling the decimated British economy from the ashes, the Party is on course to come third in the European Elections this month. In the last ten years it

A little reported study was published this week by Gavin Barwell MP, investigating why the Conservative Party has such little support among ethnic minority communities. It found that minority groups perceived the Conservative Party to be, among other things, anti-religious. Two

In 2008, journalist Peter Oborne wrote a must-read modern political work entitled ‘The Triumph of the Political Class’, identifying and bemoaning the replacement of the British Establishment with a new, self-serving, cross-party, incestuous political class in Westminster.  The book was

I first met Margaret Thatcher as a child at a constituency event she held in Finchley to thank her local activists for 40 years of service that had delivered her to the highest office in the land. My Grandmother was

Amidst the soap opera of Boris vs George vs Theresa and Gove, it would appear that a fervent debate is taking place in the Conservative Party as to the future of its leadership, in the event of the party not

As a consumer, I choose what I buy, and where I buy it from. To get to the point of citizen emancipation where I am in a position to do so has cost millions of lives and exhausted what once

In May 2012, major Conservative donor and LGBT activist Ivan Massow wrote an article making the case that the Conservative Party had nothing to fear in discarding social conservatism, because its advocates in the party had nowhere else to go.

The decision by David Cameron to block the right of constituencies to recall their MPs in cases of wrongdoing has been much debated in the UK over the past week.  It echoes a feeling that has been building about Parliament

Margaret Thatcher once said of Britain, “we must learn to be one nation, or we will be no nation.” In searching for unity in discord at a time when the traditional values that once underpinned British society were increasingly being