Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Attacks on the wealthy authors of “Austerity 2.0” could backfire’, Financial Times, 18 November 2022
- ‘The Damned Disunited. Will the Conservative Party fall apart under Rishi Sunak’, UK in a Changing Europe, 24 October 2022.
- ‘Austerity, Brexit and 44 days in purgatory: the key stages of Tory rule’, Observer, 22 October 2022.
- ‘The Conservatives have come back from oblivion before’, Financial Times, 21 October 2022.
- ‘”Difficult decisions” require the consent of the country’, The Independent, 20 October 2022.
- ‘Make no mistake: Liz Truss’s days are numbered’, El País, 18 October 2022.
- ‘Nationalised ideas factories would make better policy’, Research Professional News, 12 October 2022.
- ‘The new British government and the House of Commons do not represent the country’, Le Monde, 1 October 2022
- ‘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.
Monthly Archives: November 2021
‘To regain lost ground at the next election, Labour will need to convince voters that it can deliver greater social justice and security without risking the economy’, LSE British Politics and Policy, 8 November 2021 (with Paul Webb).
As many opinion polls have attested to over the past year, Keir Starmer has found it difficult to make his mark as Leader of the Opposition. Notwithstanding the twin economic impacts of Brexit and the pandemic, Labour continues to lag … Continue reading
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‘Boris Johnson wants net zero by 2050. Are his voters behind him?’, The Loop, 3 November 2021.
A UK referendum on its net-zero policy? In the run-up to the COP26 summit in Glasgow, a group called CAR26 persuaded the Daily Telegraph – one of the UK’s best-selling, Conservative-supporting newspapers – to run a story on a recent poll it had commissioned. The poll … Continue reading
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‘Macmillan’s many, many Chancellors’, Daily Telegraph, 30 October 2021.
Much as he might have liked to, Edmund Dell, a cabinet minister in Jim Callaghan’s Labour government, never came close to being appointed chancellor of the exchequer. But he did write what remains the best book ever written about the … Continue reading
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‘The Tories will never change’, UnHerd, 27 October 2021.
To watch Rishi Sunak deliver his Budget, one could be forgiven for thinking that Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is a very different beast from its ‘age of austerity’ predecessor led by David Cameron and George Osborne. But, in reality, is … Continue reading
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