Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Boris Johnson’s Cabinet is more heavyweight than you think. The bootlicking incompetents at today’s top table might look better tomorrow’, Prospect, 27 August 2021.
- ‘Give them a future too’, Mirror, 1 August 2021
- ‘The Truth About the Blue Wall’, Unherd, 2 August 2021.
- ‘Why some people switch political parties: new research’, The Conversation, 12 July 2021.
- ‘Post-truth – and post-conservative? How Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party poses a threat to the quality of our democracy’, Constitution Unit Blog, 5 July 2021.
- ‘Sajid Javid sounds like a lockdown sceptic, but he won’t want to alienate the NHS’, Guardian, 30 June 2021
- ‘Reflecting on Brexit: What I got right and wrong about the 2016 EU Referendum’, 21 June 2021
- ‘Lib Dems beating the Tories where Labour can’t is what Keir Starmer badly needs’, Daily Mirror, 18 May 2021.
- ‘PLOUGHED UNDER? LABOUR’S GRASSROOTS POST-CORBYN’, Political Quarterly Blog, 17 June 2021.
- ‘Is the UK choosing between the EU and the US?’, Encompass, 10 June 2021
Monthly Archives: June 2017
‘Greens can thrive as a party on the margins’, Times, 31 May 2017
The Greens are clearly the most left-leaning of all the parties that won significant support in 2015. Whether they can repeat their performance then (3.8 per cent and one million votes) is a moot point but even if they end … Continue reading
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‘Four reasons why the Lib Dem fightback may fall flat’, Times, 30 May 2017
Tim Farron’s party had high hopes for this election, based on its claim to represent the fabled 48 per cent who voted to remain in the EU last summer and on the impressive increase in membership it has seen since … Continue reading
‘Ukip seems to be facing a pretty bleak future’, Times, 1 June 2017
Theresa May isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but she has been extraordinarily successful in winning over the support of many of the nearly four million people (12.6 per cent of the electorate) who voted for the populist radical right United … Continue reading
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‘After an enormous victory in local elections, should the Tories fear voter complacency in the General? No’, CityAM, 8 May 2017
If your team is 3-0 up at half-time, then you can be fairly confident that you’re going to pull off an easy win. But even so, you need to guard against complacency. Remember the 2005 Champions League final, when the … Continue reading
