
(l-to-r: Branch Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney, Vice Chairman Leandro Pilbeam, Secretary Paul Gordon, Elliot Abrams, Social Secretary Catherine Gurri, Treasurer Pierre Shepherd) July began with a major event on the Madrid branch calendar as 10 of our branch members travelled north to a mountain...

TYC is enjoying the summer vacation (and planning some changes for the new season), but we’ve not taken our eye off the ball entirely. ...

Shane Greer has posted a sound piece about PR on his blog regarding the need to incorporate photo-ops in your campaigning. There’s a lesson here that all activists learn. Up and down the country, whatever the party or cause, people are campaigning on issues. ...

Social media – Facebook, Twitter, forums and the like – have claimed numerous victims over the last few years. They seem to encourage gaffes. Bu...

This headline isn't mine, but James Delingpole's. In the latest issue of The Spectator he interviews a man who has the courage to go against the bite-size, easy to digest and fashionable mantra that "man is killing the planet." I absolutely urge you to read it...

The Guardian has a feature this weekend on women in the Conservative Party. It’s worth a read, but pretty predictable Tory-bashing stuff, including as it does the apparent assertion that Tory rejection of positive discrimination is a bad thing. ...

A highly eventful month began on June 8th with the launch of our Conservatives Abroad branch in Madrid, marking the results of several months of lobbying and planning...

Christian May has been unavoidably delayed, and so Come What May will be published tomorrow. It’ll be worth the wait.

ConservativeHome has today published a list of the ten young Conservatives standing as candidates in seats which are either notionally Conservative or appear on paper in the top 200 target seats for the Conservatives at the next election...

Conservative Future is offering activists the chance to win a curry with Party Chairman and campaign guru Eric Pickles MP. The competition is divided into two parts...

In his latest guest post Abhishek Majumdar warns against the importation of a California-style utopia where you can have it all and finance it, which, like all socialist-funded projects, is now imploding. There is, however, much good we could adopt from the Golden State of Ronald Reagan...

Tom Wales from the newly formed University of Warwick Libertarians has penned a great opening blog post on why students should stand up for liberty. “You may be excused for assuming that the pursuit of liberty is old hat. ...

Young candidates all the rage in Norwich North, it would seem. In the by-election Conservative PPC Chloe Smith, 27, stands a very good chance of becoming the youngest Member of Parliament. But she isn’t the youngest candidate in this by-election, by some distance. ...














