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Crossbow is the prestigious magazine of the Bow Group, distributed quarterly to all members of the Bow Group.

You can download the entire contents of the latest edition in PDF format here, or you can read from a selection of articles from earlier issues below.

If you would be interested in contributing to Crossbow, or in receiving it in hard copy, please contact the Editor.

Latest issue

When David Laws resigned from the Cabinet there was much media speculation as to whether David Cameron would replace him with another Liberal Democrat. In fact, he had no ...

Previous issues

David Cameron made the NHS his number one priority upon becoming Leader of the Opposition. The ongoing economic crisis has not changed this, despite a morphed election landscape as the nation...

It is notable that the two most radical governments of the previous century, Labour after 1945 and Conservative after 1979, were both swept into power in the wake of the century’s two most severe...

With government intervention and rescue of banks comes added regulation. Many blame the hands-off approach in the US and UK that led to companies developing lax lending standards, but the problem...

Gordon Brown contributed significantly to the present crisis by building up deficits instead of surpluses when times were good, so we run the risk of government sowing the...

Since Britain’s fortunate departure from the Exchange RateMechanismin 1992, the economy has grown well. In no small part this was because of the 1980s supply side revolution, which concentrated on...

The 2008 presidential election will turn on national security just as the 2004 one did. Iraq remains the biggest dividing line between the two parties. Indeed, the past four years has seen this...

Perhaps the most exhausting month of the year, I find December strangely reassuring. You know what you are going to get; Christmas trees, carols, angels, shopping fatigue, overspend on your credit...

Every discussion of the future of the Lords seems to start from the same premise. Even the critics make no significant proposal for change in the role, powers or expectations of the House. For all...

The great British institutions to which people gave their faith and trust have, in the last four or five decades, mostly declined from the positions they held. These would include organised...

In my view the Tories have got it wrong again. They’ve chosen a new leader, who is talented and personable. He’s got hair and he’s got a certain sense of style. Labour will find it hard to portray...