Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Memoirs are made of this’, Encompass, 1 September 2022.
- ‘Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us’, Observer, 21 August 2022.
- ‘Boris Johnson is one of the least admirable – and successful – PM’s we’ve ever had’, Sunday Mirror, 10 July 2022.
- ‘Tories have been lurching further right for years. Boris Johnson was just the latest’, Observer, 10 July 2022.
- ‘Boris Johnson faces a war on two fronts’, Sunday Mirror, 25 June 2022.
- ‘Lessons for Conservatives from the double by-election blow’, FT, 24 June 20
- ‘Tories should take a tip from Macbeth and be bold. But the party itself is infirm of purpose’, Observer, 5 June 2022.
- ‘Why “partygate” likely won’t be Boris Johnson’s undoing’, NBC, 25 May 2022.
- ‘What does history tell us about how close Boris could be to his voter sell-by date?’, Telegraph, 1 February 2022
- ‘Just what exactly is continuing to keep Boris Johnson in power?’, Observer, 17 April 2022.
Monthly Archives: August 2019
‘Boris Johnson should call a general election now if he wants to win’, Metro, 27 June 2019.
Boris Johnson won the Tory leadership by promising party members anything and everything they wanted to hear. It’s also pretty obvious from the flurry of splash-the-cash policy announcements he’s already made that he’s going to try to pull off the … Continue reading
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‘What Boris Johnson and the Tory right have learned from Antonio Gramsci’, New Statesman, 26 July 2019.
I first began taking politics seriously in the mid-1980s. At that time, the Italian political prisoner and left-wing philosopher Antonio Gramsci was particularly fashionable – especially, I recall, in the pages of Marxism Today Through the lens of Gramsci’s theories, former Marxism Today editor Martin Jacques … Continue reading
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‘The PM we shouldn’t write off’, Unherd, 19 July 2019.
The current Tory leadership contest is sheer agony – especially for those of us able to call to mind the calibre of some of those who have steered the party and the country in times gone by. There’s one man, … Continue reading
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