“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
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...
Following the 2010 general election the historians of Empire Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson were asked by Education Secretary Michael Gove to consult the government on rewriting the UK education syllabus to include more in depth focus and positive teaching of...
Ben Harris-Quinney, Chairman - writing in La Razon newspaper. A huge amount has been written in recent months about Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and in this sense she continues to be the British nation’s most notable master of great...
The Bow Group was featured in today's Evening Standard following the publication of its latest paper. "Almost half of black undergraduates expect to be discriminated against when they apply for a job, a new report suggest Professions including the media,...
The last 5 years of discourse on the geo-politics of the Middle East has kept one eye on the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon, the event horizon of that possibility now seems closer than ever and yet the strategic implcations for Britain and her allies should...