Every Monday Matters: Week Nine – Are You Having Enough Fun?
Much of the work done by conservative activists of all ages is far too inward-looking and parochial. As a result it is far from welcoming to potential new members. The last thing anybody who is...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Ten – Use The Law
I have previously explained that the Education Act 1994 contains a number of provisions that too few universities and students’ unions uphold. I drew attention to the provisions that require students’...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Eleven – Know Your Enemy
In today’s hectic multimedia age, it is easy only to spend time reading blogs, websites or newspapers with whom you are in agreement. That is a very dangerous course for the conservative activist to...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Twelve – Don’t Kick Yourself
Politics is a bug. Once you catch the bug, it is rare a cure can be found. Even repeated electoral disasters cannot cure you of the disease (Ted Heath kept losing general elections but he was convinced...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Thirteen – Ask Questions
One of the wisest pieces of advice I have heard handed out to students comes from Patrick Coyle, the Vice-President of the Young America’s Foundation. Pat reminds student activists that while it is...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Fourteen – Easter is not a holiday
With the end of the Lent Term and the arrival of the Easter holidays, too many young conservative activists see that as the end of their activities until freshers’ week in the autumn. Simply because...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Fifteen – Think Laterally
As more and more universities are seeing a rise in left-wing extremism (often as a result of electoral alliances being forged between leftists and Islamists), party political societies are often...
View ArticleNo truer friends than these
The superb Young America’s Foundation, YBF’s sister organisation that acts as a gateway to the US conservative movement and whose visionary President, Ron Robinson, saved Ronald Reagan’s Ranch for the...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Four – Apply for CPAC
CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) is the biggest annual gathering of conservatives in the United States. Some 10,000 conservatives from throughout America – and some of us from...
View ArticleEvery Monday Matters: Week Five – Apply for the YBF US Summer Conference...
For the past few summers, the Young Britons’ Foundation has taken dozens of young conservative activists from Britain over to New York, Washington DC and California to learn from the think-tanks and...
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