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- ‘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
- ‘Boris Johnson’s First Year’, UK in a Changing Europe, 22 July 2020
- ‘Boris Johnson could win a war on woke’, Unherd, 29 June 2020
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- ‘Cummings, Covid and the British Establishment’, CUP’s fifteeneightyfour Blog, 3 June 2020
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Monthly Archives: December 2018
‘Theresa May and the Conservative Will to Power’, New York Times,12 December 2018.
So Prime Minister Theresa May lives to fight another day. She won Wednesday’s vote of no confidence: 200 members of her party stood by her; 117 did not. Indeed, under the Conservative Party’s rules, it will be another year before her … Continue reading
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‘Don’t underestimate Rees-Mogg’s ‘phantom army’ of Brexit fanatics’, Guardian, 21 November 2018
Blackmail,” as countless on-screen villains have observed over the decades, “is such an ugly word.” And, if you want to understand how an ostensibly small group of Tory Euro-fanatics has exercised such a hold over their leaders for so long, … Continue reading
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‘Corbynism is a populism within Labour – but Brexit risks its internal appeal’ (with Jake Watts), LabourList, 20 November 2018
When we think of populism in recent years, we tend to think of the Ukips of the right and the Syrizas of the left. These political forces are united by their binary politics, in which they look out and see … Continue reading
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‘Conservative conference: a party surprisingly united on Brexit, just divided from the rest of the world’, The Conversation, 2 October 2018
In his big speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham on Monday, Brexit secretry Dominic Raab urged fellow Tories to “come together”. I’m not sure he needed to bother. Here in Birmingham the issue’s already one big circle jerk. After all, … Continue reading
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‘Online or offline? A look at the activism of Labour members’, LabourList, 21 September, 2018
As the last general election showed, when it comes to campaigning, boots on the ground can sometimes beat cash in the bank. Labour’s huge advantage over the Tories in terms of membership must surely have counted for something in close … Continue reading
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