I teach politics at Queen Mary, University of London, specializing in British and European electoral and party politics. I also write stuff for newspapers like the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Telegraph, and occasionally pop up on radio and television talking about politics. I tweet @ProfTimBale. This site essentially collects together in one place the various blog-posts and articles I do for other sites, beginning 18 July 2013, along with ‘pre-proof’ versions of academic articles, the bulk of which can’t be read online except by people who have subscriptions to the scholarly journals in which the final versions appear. For anything before 18 July 2013, I guess, you will – unless I’ve had time to put it on the ‘Older posts in other places page’ – probably have to search the web. Can’t imagine that anyone will be that keen, though….
Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Why some people switch political parties: new research’, The Conversation, 12 July 2021.
- ‘Post-truth – and post-conservative? How Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party poses a threat to the quality of our democracy’, Constitution Unit Blog, 5 July 2021.
- ‘Sajid Javid sounds like a lockdown sceptic, but he won’t want to alienate the NHS’, Guardian, 30 June 2021
- ‘Reflecting on Brexit: What I got right and wrong about the 2016 EU Referendum’, 21 June 2021
- ‘Lib Dems beating the Tories where Labour can’t is what Keir Starmer badly needs’, Daily Mirror, 18 May 2021.
- ‘PLOUGHED UNDER? LABOUR’S GRASSROOTS POST-CORBYN’, Political Quarterly Blog, 17 June 2021.
- ‘Is the UK choosing between the EU and the US?’, Encompass, 10 June 2021
- ‘G7 summit: what to expect from Boris Johnson as Joe Biden visits the UK’, The Conversation, 7 June 2021
- ‘I know why social care isn’t being fixed’, Tortoise, 11 March 2021
- ‘The Conservatives’, UK in a Changing Europe, Beyond Brexit Report, 19 January 2021.
Great to read your posts and blogs. Your comments on Tory home page i found enlightening as it gave a view similar to my own about why Brexit MeansBrexit. Since my initial research for my MA Europol at Sussex in 2007 Referendum showed how conservative organisations could not agree with the Brexit identity within them. I.e CofE communicants and Archbishops Council Policies of a pro European sgenda.
Germany is still going through these issues in a manner which is driving the Christian rightwing communities further away from the CDU which may partially explain the fall in support for Chancellor Merkle.