The Conservative Woman
Type of site | Blog |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Website |
conservativewoman |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | March 2014 |
| Current status | Active |
The Conservative Woman[1] is a UK-based political website started in 2014 to provide a new voice for social conservatism.
The blogs express right-wing views such as sweeping away the welfare state[2] and referring to the RSPCA as a lunatic lefty organisation promoting class war.[3]
Editors
The Conservative Woman was launched by co-editors Kathy Gyngell and Laura Perrins.
Kathy Gyngell
Kathy Gyngell is a co-editor of The Conservative Woman. She is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies.
She researched and wrote the Addictions reports for the Conservative Party's Social Justice Policy Review publications Breakdown Britain (2006) and Breakthrough Britain (2007). She published further critiques of drug policy, The Phoney War on Drugs (2009) and Breaking the Habit (2011). She writes frequently for the Daily Mail and has written for The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Times and the Evening Standard.
She is a graduate of both Cambridge and Oxford universities. She has worked at London Weekend Television and TV-am where she was features editor. She has two adult sons and is a trustee of the drugs-prevention charity Cannabis and Skunk Sense.
Laura Perrins
Laura Perrins is a co-editor of The Conservative Woman. She is a former barrister, campaigns for Mothers at Home Matter and has written for The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, ConservativeHome and The Catholic Herald.[4]
She maintains a passion for the criminal law and tutors first years in the subject at University College London.
On 2 February 2017 she took part in the BBC Question Time programme[5] where she defended Donald Trump's Executive Order banning travellers from certain countries. Nick Hewer strongly disagreed with her arguments.
Contributors
Former Conservative Party leadership contender David Davis, Conservative MP Tim Loughton, economist Ruth Lea, social commentator Jill Kirby and UK Independence Party Member of the European Parliament Gerard Batten are among a long list of right-wing commentators who have written for the website.
The Conservative Woman lists its other regular contributors on its website.
- Philippa Taylor (Head of Public Policy at the Christian Medical Fellowship)
- Dr Holly Hamilton-Bleakley
- Leslie Loftis
- Dr Laura Keynes
- Chris McGovern (Chairman, Campaign for Real Education)
- Harry Benson (Marriage Foundation)
References
- ↑ . The Conservative Woman.
- ↑ "Real conservaticves".
- ↑ Lefty Lunacy
- ↑ Wanting the credit for staying at home by Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times, July 21, 2013.
- ↑ "Question Time, 02/02/2017" – via www.bbc.co.uk.