Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. It is often said that the Right won the battle of ideas in the 1980s and […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Politics is expensive. It is for this reason that there are such strong objections to state […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. This week I have been in the United States on business. I was able to see […]
This week saw the untimely death of one of the heroes of the conservative movement, Rt Hon Eric Forth MP. Eric was the Vice-President of Conservative Way Forward (having been its chairman between 1997 and 2001) and a member of the Parliamentary Council of the Young Britons’ Foundation since 2003. Also member of the No […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Political activists are volunteers. Most have busy lives – juggling an increasingly hectic work/life balance. The […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Politics is a nasty business. Even though one might wish that it was run along the […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. There can be little doubt that Margaret Thatcher won the battle of ideas in the 1980s. […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. In the same way that an important maxim of politics is that one should not make […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. It has often been remarked that the Conservative Party is a broad church. Over the years […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. This is another timely maxim, given David Cameron’s recent attack on those who support UKIP (whom […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. The eighth Rule is a variation on the maxim: “don’t get mad, get even”. Norman Tebbit […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Number 7: Don’t fire all your ammunition at once. This is one of the golden rules […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Number 6: A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear […]
British Conservatives differ in many ways from our American cousins. During the 1980s, however, much store was laid on the fact that both Thatcherism and Reaganomics stressed the importance of individuals exercising as much power over their own lives as possible (particularly in the economic sphere). A by-product of this approach, coupled with record levels […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. US President Lyndon Johnson is famous for two political maxims. The first, when wishing to smear […]