“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
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Dr John O’Sullivan, Bow Group Senior Patron
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The Bow Group took great pleasure in partnering with the Ronald Reagan Foundation for the unveiling of the statue of the 40th President of the United States in Grovsenor Square, and the celebration of his centennial year. Representatives of the group enjoyed an...
Dr James Boys is the Liaison Officer & Transatlantic Research Fellow at the Bow Group and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London There is a line in the 1994 adaptation of Clear and Present Danger when a character is asked what the President wants....
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Paul Burstow MP, Minister responsible for Care Services has championed 'telecare' or 'doctor by broadband', as advocated by the Bow Group in its August 2009 paper. The author of the Bow Group's paper, Sue Yeandle, Professor of...
The Bow Group was delighted to partner with Forbes Magazine at the Conservative Party Conference. Before and after the Prime Minister's speech 200 free copies of Forbes Magazine and Bow Group materials, which included the famous Forbes 400 and Rich List,were handed...
Ben Harris-Quinney, Chairman, writing on Conservative Home. A febrile media and discontented nation feels as if it is about to tear through the tax records of everyone who has ever stepped into the public eye. On what basis? Not a vast conspiracy or crime, not even...
The Bow Group has unveiled a paper in Parliament urging the Government to reconsider plans to resume badger culling in England in autumn 2012, saying the culls, an attempt to control the spread of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB), are likely to be more costly and less...
We are sad to announce the death of Sir Timothy Raison, member of the Bow Group and former editor of Crossbow, who died on November 3 aged 82. Prior to his election as MP for Aylesbury in 1970, Sir Timothy was a prolific editor and journalist. Beginning his work...
Ben Harris-Quinney, Chairman, writing at the Commentator.The aphorisms “be careful what you wish for” and “better the devil you know” seem to be applicable in politics to a worrying degree of consistency in the modern era.When in 2009 posters and blog posts...
On March 29th 2012 the Times Newspaper published the Bow Group's position on HS2, and the Government's decision to proceed with the project before consultations begin on airport policy. The full text is as follows: Letters to the Editor, The Times Sir, Christian...