YBF Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, has written a tribute to Lady Thatcher for its US-based sister organisation, Young America’s Foundation, which you can read here.
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Would you like to come to America this summer?
The deadline for applications to attend the YBF Reagan-Thatcher Summer Conference Programme is soon to expire.
Have you applied to join us in America this summer? Here’s why you should apply:
Staying at Marymount University, with direct access to Ballston Metro station, students have a chance to: Continue reading
YBF and Conservative Way Forward
As you may have seen on Conservative Home, London Spin and Guido Fawkes, YBF Chief Executive and Co-Founder, Donal Blaney, has today been announced as the new Chief Executive of Conservative Way Forward.
Donal will be continuing as Chief Executive of both organisations, which will remain separate and distinct brands. Paul Osborn, YBF’s Strategy Director, will become Executive Director of CWF and Matthew Richardson will remain as YBF’s Executive Director.
This is a very exciting time for conservative activists and YBF looks forward to working even more closely with CWF over the coming months and years!
Every Monday Matters: Week Five – Apply for the YBF US Summer Conference Programme
For the past few summers, the Young Britons’ Foundation has taken dozens of young conservative activists from Britain over to New York, Washington DC and California to learn from the think-tanks and activist groups in the United States.
The result is that those activists have returned to Britain better trained and highly motivated to promote conservative values in their schools, colleges and universities, on the blogosphere and in their local communities.
During the YBF US Summer Conference Programme students will have the opportunity to attend all or any of the following conferences: Continue reading
Soundbytes (Monday, 4th February 2013)
Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion
- Conservative Home: Traditionalists have chosen the wrong battle
- Iain Dale: A question for closet gay Tory MPs
- Damian Thompson: The pathetic desperation of The Observer
- Daniel Hannan: A declaration of independence
- Boston Herald: Senator Romney?
On this day…
- 1975: Natalie Imbruglia is born…
Daily Reaganite
- “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence”.
Daily Thatcherite
- “There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it”.
If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.
Soundbytes (Saturday, 2nd February 2013)
Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion
- Fox News: RIP Barney
- Forbes: Watch out for “kept conservatives”
- Washington Examiner: What would the babies say?
- Guido Fawkes: Labour is taxing my patience
- Iain Dale: Troughing councillors should be voted out of office
On this day…
- 1990: F W De Klerk lifts the ban on the ANC and promises the release of Nelson Mandela.
Daily Reaganite
- “Don’t be afraid to see what you see”.
Daily Thatcherite
- “It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election”.
If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.
William Hague: Legend
Soundbytes (Friday, 1st February 2013)
Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion
- Reuters: Texas Governor calls for tax cuts
- James Delingpole: Let’s stand up to the bullies on the left
- Human Events: Deer don’t shoot back, criminals do
- Simon Heffer: Evil is rising again in Europe
- Daily Mail: Lib Dems insult democracy
On this day…
- 1931: Boris Yeltsin is born.
Daily Reaganite
- “We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule”.
Daily Thatcherite
- “If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim”.
If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.
Soundbytes (Thursday, 31st January 2013)
Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion
- Conservative Home: Eric Pickles attacks the BBC
- Guido Fawkes: UCAS applications rise
- Daniel Hannan: Thank you Guido!
- Toby Young: Nick Clegg is a petulant child
- BBC News: Hope and change in America?
On this day…
- 1606: Guy Fawkes is executed.
Daily Reaganite
- “The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination”.
Daily Thatcherite
- “People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top”.
If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.
Soundbytes (Wednesday, 30th January 2013)
Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion
- Guido Fawkes: Huhne trial reporting restrictions to be lifted
- Campus Reform UK: Birmingham University vote rigging scandal
- Conservative Home: 299 tax increases under the Tories since 2010
- Daniel Hannan: You want to fund fascists?
- Investor’s Business Daily: Obama has already spent those tax rises!
On this day…
- 1649: Charles I is beheaded.
Daily Reaganite
- “We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country”.
Daily Thatcherite
- “This lady is not for turning”.
If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.