Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Boris Johnson should call a general election now if he wants to win’, Metro, 27 June 2019.
- ‘What Boris Johnson and the Tory right have learned from Antonio Gramsci’, New Statesman, 26 July 2019.
- ‘The PM we shouldn’t write off’, Unherd, 19 July 2019.
- ‘Tory leadership contest: What’s on the minds of party members?’, BBC, 5 July 2019.
- ‘How the Tories became a Brexit death cult in thrall to Boris Johnson’, Independent, 27 June 2019.
- ‘People are unpredictable at predicting what they will do’ (with Phil Cowley), Times, 27 June 2019.
- ‘Tory leadership: Who gets to choose the UK’s next prime minister?’, BBC, 23 June 2019.
- ‘The Surreal Contest to Succeed Theresa May’, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2019
- ‘Boris Johnson supporters want no-deal Brexit and less talk of climate change – new survey of party members reveals’, The Conversation (with Paul Webb), 11 June 2019.
- ‘How Farage took control’, Unherd, 7 June 2019.
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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