“Politics will lead you down many paths, but a conservative and a patriot will never be far from the Bow Group. Against the tide of globalism, liberalism, and Marxism the Bow Group stands resolute.
The Bow Group is where conservatism begins and ends in Britain, there is nowhere else like it.”
Ben Harris-Quinney, Bow Group Chairman
“It is my honour to accept the role of Senior Patron of the Bow Group, one of the very few conservative institutions that has been there throughout my life, and is ever renewing its commitment to conservatism…rather than demuring from it.”
Sir Roger Scruton, Bow Group Honorary Patron
“It’s so important to have a really strong intellectual base from which to develop policy, and the research material that began the Brexit movement and the Maastricht rebellion was a pamphlet published by the Bow Group. The Bow Group has always been at the heart of British and conservative patriotism.”
Sir Bill Cash MP, Bow Group Senior Patron
“All organisations that are not avowedly right-wing will eventually become left-wing.”
Dr John O’Sullivan, Bow Group Senior Patron
Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank
Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank
The Bow Group produced its first research paper in 1952, entitled “Coloured People in Britain”. It served as a study into the British Afro-Caribbean community, and the issues and barriers that were faced by these citizens, to integrate and succeed in British...
By Dr James Boys, Bow Group Liaison OfficerFormer president Bill Clinton was accused of racism for questioning the credibility of Obama’s 2008 campaign. This was particularly perplexing and wounding to Clinton whom in office had famously been referred to...
Leadership and achievement must be the mark of any government. Spin can still just about keep the ball rolling from crisis to mediocrity and back, but when scrutinised, especially with hindsight, any government relying on it withers. I recall fondly a meeting with...
Scotland's Enterprising Ideas Worth Zoning In OnThe essential feature of an enterprise zone is that it is a geographically defined area within which tax incentives, simpler planning procedures and other administrative relief is made available. Its purpose is to...
The Bow Group welcomes the victory for the Conservative Party in The Bow Group's adopted London Assembly seat of Havering & Redbridge. This was one of the critical areas Boris had to win to be returned to City Hall.With The Bow Group's help, Roger Evans was...
Five former chairmen and senior officers of the Bow Group are among nine people who have been appointed as spokesmen for the Conservative Campaign against AV. Kwasi Kwarteng, Sam Gymiah, Chris Philip, Chris Skidmore and Charlotte Leslie. will take an active role...
By Ben Harris-Quinney, Chairman. Cameron’s self-imposed moniker of being “the heir to Blair” was once delivered with the combination of flippancy and coy admiration. It was an all too recent time, when the third way remained at the heart of the conspiracy of the...
The House of Lords has often been subject to considerable criticism on a number of different grounds, and the sheer amount written on the subject of House of Lords reform illustrates that our upper house sits uneasily in our constitutional framework of a modern,...
The Bow Group were delighted to welcome back Secretary of State for Culture Media & Sport Jeremy Hunt, to deliver the keynote speech at our annual summer terrace reception at the House of Commons. The event could not have occured at a more febrile time of...