Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘I know why social care isn’t being fixed’, Tortoise, 11 March 2021
- ‘The Conservatives’, UK in a Changing Europe, Beyond Brexit Report, 19 January 2021.
- ‘Is the Brexit war finally over?’, 27 December 2020
- ‘How bad is it for Boris?’, Unherd, 18 December 2020
- ‘Are lockdown-scepticism and Euroscepticism linked?’, UK in a Changing Europe, 10 November 2020 (with Alan Wager)
- ‘Cummings, Covid and the British Establishment’, CUP’s fifteeneightyfour Blog, 3 June 2020
- ‘What can the Conservatives’ 2019 election win tell us about their current leadership?’, OUP Blog, 9 November 2020 (with Sam Power and Paul Webb)
- ‘Northern Research Group: faction or tendency?’, UK in a Changing Europe, 28 October 2020
- ‘Tory Party conference and the missing B-word’, UK in a Changing Europe, 9 October 2020 (with Alan Wager)
- ‘How patriotic Labour could crush Boris’, Unherd, 21 September 2020
Monthly Archives: May 2016
‘The Corn Laws analogy is misplaced. There’s no good reason why the Tories should split over Europe’, ConservativeHome, 17 May 2016.
An apocryphal aphorism coined by a firebrand left-wing legend might not be an obvious way to start a discussion about what could happen to the Conservative Party in the wake of the EU Referendum, but Nye Bevan surely had a … Continue reading
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‘David Cameron is not the man to shoot the Conservative Eurosceptic dog’, Telegraph, 10 May 2016
You know the Tory Civil War is back on when the body-snatching starts again in earnest. A few weeks ago, Winston Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, the MP for Mid-Sussex, made it plain that he took a dim view of … Continue reading
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‘Labour voters don’t have a problem with Jewish people….’, Telegraph, 5 May 2016
This time last year, many people believed that the Labour Party was about to supply the UK with its first Jewish Prime Minister since Benjamin Disraeli. How things have changed. The party that was led by Ed Miliband for five … Continue reading
‘How should Labour’s disgruntled moderates behave?’, New Statesman, 4 May 2016
When Albert O. Hirschman was writing Exit, Voice, Loyalty: Responses to decline in Firms, Organizations, and States he wasn’t thinking of the British Labour Party. That doesn’t mean, though, that one of the world’s seminal applications of economics to politics … Continue reading
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Tagged Exit, Hirschman, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Loyalty, Voice
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