Conservative Media

  • Founding Issues: Conservative Home’s rent to pay

    The website, ConservativeHome, has a short but well-lived history so far. It’s a fledgling brand, due to its founding only in 2005 by Tim Montgomerie, now a member of Reform UK after having withdrawn his support for the Conservative Party. Yet it’s achieved a name for itself by sticking close to Party figures, and news.

    ConservativeHome website

    The online world is a vibrant and yet patchy network, if you’re interested in politics, that is. It often lacks quality, and this is where Montgomerie’s brand started to make a change. It’s succeeded to some extent, breaking news and making waves in terms of its commentary. It’s often put him on TV, which is boon for any commentator.

    The tone of public discussion is often low, and it’s seen across channels and social media profiles that try to bring down each and every government that comes along. The whole ethos behind Home has been to support what the narrative is, and question it along the way. Its regular newsletters also uphold this principle.

  • Founding Issues: The Telegraph’s line

    The Daily Telegraph (and its sister Sunday edition) has been an institution in many houses in the UK for a long time. It forms the bulk of what many read in terms of conservative printed material.

    Its website is also a burgeoning destination. Its adoption shows that longer format news journalism is also popular online, in a time when fake news spreads like wild fire.

    Its columnists, writers, and reporters are admired for their incisive takes on the politics of the day. They have the insider line on the Conservative party, and its overall way of politics.

    The Daily T Podcast

    In times past, it’s hit the rocks because of a traditional take on things, such as religion, culture, and society. It also draws the ire of socialists who perceive its politics to be slow.

    However, a generation of politicians in the UK have found their feet by it, taking cues off its pages – and putting in their own. It’s informed win after win for the UK’s old party of state.

    In the new era, podcasts, shows, and staples such as social media profiles play a supplementary role in guiding the nations discourse. It also opens it up to wider scrutiny in the UK.