Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘The virus is changing politics, but there are opportunities as well as risks’, Times, 13 May 2020.
- ‘Does Boris Johnson have the Conservative Party’s permission to extend transition?’, with Hovid Minasyan, 30 April, UK in a Changing Europe.
- ‘A Brexit extension would face serious opposition even during coronavirus’, Financial Times, 11 April 2020
- ‘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.
Monthly Archives: August 2018
‘Counting the Cost of Brexit Inaction’, Politico.eu,12 August 2018.
Close your eyes. Imagine for a moment that you’re waking up on June 24, 2016 and turn on the TV to hear that Remain had won the U.K.’s EU referendum. Prime Minister David Cameron is standing at a lectern in … Continue reading
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‘To Defeat Far-Right Nationalists, Don’t Try to Imitate Them’, New York Times, 16 July 2018.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government in Britain is in turmoil. But the resignations that have rocked it in recent days — even that of Boris Johnson, who was until recently her obsessively ambitious foreign secretary — risk blinding us to a … Continue reading
‘Here’s Tory Brexiteers’ real plan for 2019: a leaner, meaner Britain’, Guardian, 13 July 2018.
It’s a truth pretty universally acknowledged that the reason the Conservative government has struggled to come up with an agreed negotiating position in the wake of the country voting for Brexit is that many Tories who campaigned for leave didn’t … Continue reading
‘Grammar schools are indefensible. I should know – I went to one’, Guardian, 11 May 2018.
This morning, not for the first (or the last) time, I had to be patiently reminded not to rant and rave at the radio while taking a shower. The trigger? The government’s announcement that it was bunging an extra 50 million … Continue reading
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