Why we must invest in teaching cyber skills
We must make sure that we invest now in the teaching of cyber skills, writes Stephen James for Digital Tories
Allow Councils to continue with virtual meetings
The ability for Councils to be held virtually ends on 7 May 2021. Not all are like Handforth Parish Council’s, writes Tory Council Leader Doug Pullen: they can help reduce our democratic deficit.
Online Harms consultation gives UK opportunity to curb online anonymous abuse
By Pierre Andrews and Alice Hopkin The Problem This week, online racist abuse once again reared its ugly head, attacking Manchester United player and lauded campaigner Marcus Rashford MBE. The issue reached the highest levels of government, with Culture Secretary...
Media literacy is essential to make the UK the safest country to be online
The information landscape If the Coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that online misinformation creates offline harms. Senseless witch hunts against telecoms engineers and anti-mask protests are behaviours that should be more at home in 17th...
Time to pick up the phone
It’s coming up to Christmas, it’s cold outside and we can’t really go anywhere. And with going canvassing door-to-door currently on pause until further notice, we find ourselves in a world where the best form of canvassing is a simple phone call. But why should...
Digital Campaigning on the Shoulders of Giants
When I first joined the Conservative Party back in 2003 the phrase ‘digital campaigning’ was not even uttered at the grassroots level, whereas today it’s essential for every Conservative activist and pervades our daily lives. I remember running three...
How Coronavirus hit radio
Traditionally, when bad weather hit, we all turned to local radio for the latest traffic information and school closures. During the early stage of the pandemic, as we stayed at home to protect the NHS to save lives, many people switched on the radio to get the latest...
LGBT+ Conservatives – digital campaigning in style!
Like most Tory organisations, LGBT+ Conservatives entered 2020 convinced that it was ‘our year.’ Not only were we still glowing from the 2019 election result, but we had a new Chair in Elena Bunbury and a diverse new General Council. Besides, it was the dawn of the...
Digital is the future of political campaigning – so let’s not become the Wild West
As President Obama told the BBC last week, a sad fact of modern life is ‘truth decay’: on social media, facts increasingly no longer seem to matter. As a result, political divisions have flourished: after all, if you’re seeing a social media feed that is...
Youth engagement and keeping in touch
There is no getting around it, this has been a crap year. All of us have missed loved ones, missed birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, concerts, conferences and of course, missed the chance to say goodbye to those sadly taken from us. And all of us yearn for the...