My name is Oisin Kennedy-Baleztena, and I am completing the MSc in Political Theory Research as a member of Wadham College. I specialise in conservative political thought, with particular focus on the theoretical foundations behind the contemporary resurgence of right-of-centre ideologies. My research contrasts moderate, liberal Conservatism with Reactionism, reformulating the former—what I term “Wilful Conservatism”—by imbuing it with the dynamism needed to respond to radical political change, thereby positioning it as the more sophisticated alternative.