In our last post before Christmas (we return on the 27th) here is a brief guide to the eleven shields that have crowned ConservativeHome.com since our launch on Easter Monday, 2005. The shields represent the breadth of the ideal conservative coalition – ‘the politics of and’. Each of us come to the conservative colours for […]
One of the great things about Facebook is that you can find the nichest of niche groups of like-minded people. It has an advertising package to match. You can, for example, upload an ad banner that will appear 10,000 times to female twenty-somethings who live in York and enjoy listening to jazz. This kind of […]
These last few weeks have been exhausting. Sam and I have never posted as much. Traffic has never been higher. Events have been gripping. The turnaround in Tory fortunes breathtaking. Forgive us if the site is a little quieter over the next 48 hours. We are going to have a weekend off. There’ll still be […]
Here are the eight key points of the speech David Cameron is giving at the Google Zeitgeist conference today: The pre-bureacratic era: "A time when nearly all politics was local – because it had to be. When it took days or weeks to get from one city to the next, when news travelled around the […]
Today’s Observer: "Brown’s plans for his announcement were thrown into disarray when news of his decision was leaked to the Conservative Home website. This meant Cameron was able to broadcast his attack before Brown has a chance to explain himself on television. His interview with Marr was recorded in Downing Street yesterday afternoon for broadcast […]
Last Saturday we offered a mug to the reader who got the best score on the newly-launched Taxman Gordon game. "Gav" is the highest person in the high scores with CH after their name, and second in general only because of the ridiculously high score of "El Bambi". Well done Gav, email me with your […]
The Party is running an eBay charity auction during conference, to raise money for the excellent charities Save the Family and Time for Families. Items include: Signed copy of David Cameron’s 2005 conference speech Signed print of Margaret Thatcher Signed photo of Thatcher celebrating 1983 election Cricket bat and book signed by John Major A […]
Go to TaxManGordon.com to play this CCHQ-commissioned version of the classic video game Pacman. Instead of evading multi-coloured monsters you have to avoid the Gordon Browns being churned out of No.10, and the 111 stealth tax rises he brings with him: "With the longest tax code in the world, try as you might you’ll never […]
All comments to CF Diary, Seats and candidates and the London Mayor section of ConservativeHome have always been subject to moderation. None appear until they have been approved by a member of the editorial team. Moderation is now being implemented on every ConservativeHome page including the newslinks page, ToryDiary and Platform. I’ve long resisted this […]
Busy day today! Just back from a Five Live discussion and have now got to write an article for tomorrow’s Guardian. This morning I recorded this ‘twofer’ with Daniel Finkelstein of The Times’ Comment Central blog. Danny plans to conduct these interviews with other bloggers regularly from now on. I’ll have to work on the […]
As reported by Fraser Nelson a fortnight ago (see ConservativeHome’s response) the new Cameroonian blog Platform 10 has now launched. Although there are only few articles up at the moment – on the Social Justice Policy Group, the Ealing and Sedgefield by-elections and organ donation – they perhaps give a flavour of the site’s direction. […]
On Saturday I posted a piece about the possibility of John Bercow defecting to Labour. Although the three sources who provoked the feature are reliable – and although I highlighted the post’s speculative nature – I now regret that post. I had a long conversation with John Bercow yesterday and he assured me that he […]
The Conservative Party has this morning launched its Stand Up, Speak Up website. It gives members of the public the chance to read the reports of the policy groups and then vote on their key conclusions and then debate them. David Cameron introduces the concept here. The debate starts with discussion of the social justice […]
Fraser Nelson, on The Spectator’s Coffee House, is reporting that Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s leading adviser, is behind a new blog that will champion a more Cameroonian view of the world. I do not know if Steve does want to build an alternative to ConservativeHome but I wish Fiona Melville and her team every success […]
We hope you like it. We have had the following main aims: To make the site easier to navigate. To increase the prominence of links to blogs. That explains the new middle column on the frontpage that will cover blogs and news as the day develops. To provide some new functionality. There is now, for […]