This week’s Campaign Tip is more of an encouragement to adopt what the Young America’s Foundation call “the Reagan Approach” to campaigning. Instead of being a “passive activist”, YAF encourages students to become “proactive activists”. Thus instead of whining about how awful your degree course, students’ union or the media are, you are encouraged to get off your backside and DO something about it!

So in that spirit, today I encourage you to adopt the same approach to activism. We are to become “proactive activists” – and the first campaign will be to attack the BBC for its astonishing bias over the US presidential election campaign. The contrast between last week’s coverage of the Democratic Party Convention in Denver and this week’s coverage of the GOP Convention in St Paul is astonishing. So here’s a way to get off your backsides and to campaign hard against the Barack Broadcasting Corporation.