Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Covid-19 and the transition period’, UK in a Changing Europe, 19 March 2020.
- ‘Level up: Boosting the regions might mean levelling down London’ (with Phil Cowley), CityAM, 12 March 2020.
- ‘Poll reveals tensions in new Tory coalition’, Unherd, 11 March 2020.
- ‘Wash your hands, Big Brother is watching you’, Times, 9 March 2020.
- ‘Research with party members offers an important clue about how to heal Brexit divisions’, The Conversation, 5 February 2020.
- ‘What does Brexit mean for the UK’s party system?’, New Statesman, 5 February 2020.
- ‘We asked Labour members why their party lost. Here’s what they said’, LabourList, 3 February 2020.
- ‘Labour leadership race: survey shows Rebecca Long-Bailey only just scrapes majority among Momentum members’ (with Paul Webb), The Conversation, 15 January 2020.
- ‘Remember: the average Labour member isn’t as political as you think’, New Statesman, 13 January 2020.
- ‘Keir Starmer, Brexit and the Labour leadership contest’, 10 January 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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