Ideas
Give me an idea of an idea.
Here are some free ideas we’ve come up with. They are by no means the outer limits of what is possible — big ideas, even smaller ideas. But they give a good sense of the range: achievable projects that can make a difference to the organic structure of conservatism. Systems thinking.
Arguendo. A small press business that publishes and distributes well-bound sets of 15,000 word rightist arguments. Neo-pamphleteering. The missing link between book publishing and the long-read universe.
The Hundred Pound Club. A membership donor syndicate, a sort of stokvel, wherein members contribute £100 a year, and then every quarter vote between three rightist micro-organisations competing for the pooled cheque. Democratising the funding process, while making it fun.
Bat Tunnel Digest. The people who answer consultations write the rules. The system is regularly gamed — it should be gamed back. This idea tracks every live government consultation, explains it, produces a technically competent response, then mobilises affected citizens to respond to it.
Quangocracy. A permanent database of appointments to regulators, quangos, cultural bodies, universities and public boards: who appointed whom, for how long, from where? Who exactly are the quangocrats who run our lives? And how can we tilt the pool rightwards? Extend this into a calendar showing every position becoming vacant in the next twelve months.
The Landlady’s League. Do for small residential landlords what the Taxpayers Alliance did for HMRC’s paypigs — turn a disparate group into a political voice, organised around mutual insurance and legal support.
Political Toastmasters. Public argument as a teachable skill, rhetoric in short. A night course for adults who might be in the first foothills of their political careers. Debating, media performance, speechwriting, hostile-question survival.
Second Reading. A YouTube channel that does for legislation what reviewers do for films: passing the raw gristle of bills into neatly tied off sausages: cut through the blarney, what does this mean for the Right? What’s the granular view?
Veritas Chambers. A referral network of sympathetic barristers and solicitors, searchable by issue: employment, education, speech, or religious liberty.
The Back Office Co-op. Shared bookkeeping, payroll, compliance and filings for small campaigning orgs and think tanks who can’t justify hiring the extra hands.
The Country Files. Somewhere between the Countryside Alliance, Farmer’s Weekly and the Sporle Parish Gazette, there is a missing world, where the rural world is treated neither as an agro-business, nor a series of church restoration projects; where the timbre of its people can be heard. A serious podcast and newsletter about country life, from a political point of view.