By Robert J Davies

At last, I think we’re nearly all set to press the button on our new website and send it out there this very evening (Thurs, December 12th). I would like to say a big thank you to a small but vital number of people who have helped make this possible. The website is a dozen times better than the old one, and will allow us to grow it in a meaningful way.

A lot of the content has been written by me - I think that’s inevitable at this stage and as the person who founded the RCM in the first place, I should expect to do most of the hard slog. But this is not intended as a personal website to promote some bloke called Robert Davies. What matters is not me but my ideas, and the ideas of the countless numbers in this country who feel the same way. I hope that in some small way, this website will provide a vehicle for advancing what we mean by Rural Conservatism and helping to give the people of this land something to believe in again. We can’t go on like this, in Britain, living in a vacuum where most of our cherished beliefs and traditions have been excised from public view and put in a box marked: The Past. We can’t hope to make ourselves feel happy and fulfilled by replacing our centuries-old island narrative with hero worship of the NHS or, God forbid, BLM - you’ll know what I mean by that abbreviation, I’m not going to do them the courtesy of writing their name out in full.

I do hope you enjoy the website and bear with us if there are currently any glitches or typos in it. We will update it as regularly as we reasonably can and I am very keen to attract written contributions from others, both in the form of articles and also, of course, for readers to have their say in the Comments section below each one.