Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Norman Tebbit carried a torch for a “true-blue” politics now embraced by Nigel Farage’, Independent, 8 July 2025
- ‘Why we need to halt “hard right” in its tracks’, The Loop, 10 July 2025.
- ‘Why are Tories suddenly in favour of proportional representation?’, The Independent, 25 June 2025.
- ‘London isn’t a Labour city any more — the three key questions that new polling raises’, The Standard, 24 June 2025.
- ‘Starmer’s immigrant rhetoric and politics of migration’, Anadolu, 23 May 2025.
- ‘Starmer’s winter fuel allowance “U-turn” sets him on a tricky path with backbenchers and voters’, The Conversation, 22 May 2025.
- ‘Nigel Farage has the crowd, but not the plan – and the clock is ticking’, LBC, 3 May 2025.
- ‘Under “Brexit Badenoch”, what is the future of the Conservative Party?’, The Independent, 26 April 2025.
- ‘Brexit and the Conservative Party’, UK in a Changing Europe, 25 April 2025.
- ‘Rachel Reeves needs to change the record’, Linkedin Pulse, 27 March 2025.
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‘What’s behind the attacks on Muslims and migrants by far-right groups in the UK?,’ Anadolu Agency, 5 August 2024.
In the past few days, the United Kingdom has witnessed a wave of violent disorder. Many of those involved are doubtless motivated not so much by politics as by the kind of excitement that football hooligans the world over have … Continue reading
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‘What it means to be Right-wing today,’ Telegraph, 27 July 2024.
Only when nominations close on Monday can we be sure who’s formally in the running to take over the Tory leadership. But the candidates, declared and prospective, have already been setting out their stalls in the pages of this newspaper … Continue reading
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‘The collapse of Britain’s stillborn Rwanda plan,’ Anadolu Agency, 3 July 2024
The Conservative government’s plan to deport the vast bulk of those claiming asylum in the United Kingdom (UK) to Rwanda was always about politics rather than policy – symbolism rather than substance. It was first unveiled in the spring of … Continue reading
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‘Election vox pops may entertain – but they won’t tell you who’s won…’, Independent, 3 June, 2024.
Only one week into a six-week election campaign and, if you’re watching or listening to any of the UK’s biggest broadcasters, you already can’t move for vox pops. Ironically, the journalists who conduct them aren’t necessarily that keen on them. Indeed, some … Continue reading
‘Don’t count Nigel Farage out just yet’, Unherd, 25 May 2024.
Who knows what Nigel Farage is really up to? Apart from Farage himself, that is, though he sometimes seems to have trouble making his mind up. But now he has, what are we to make of his decision not to stand for … Continue reading
‘Foxes at the door – the Tories’ identity crisis’, House Magazine/Politics Home, 9 May 2024.
Every political party likes to believe that it’s somehow special, sui generis, novel. In truth, though, there’s little that’s new under the sun. Reform UK, for all the excitement surrounding it right now, is no exception to the rule – … Continue reading
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‘Local election results will be a serious shellacking for Rishi Sunak and the Tories’, Express, 3 March 2024.
If a week is a long time in politics then three years is a lifetime. In the first week of May 2021, Boris Johnson’s Tories won the Hartlepool byelection from Labour with on a swing of 16 percent – an … Continue reading
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‘Like it’s 1997? Major’s lot weren’t so pointless, poisonous or loathed’, Observer, 17 March 2024.
We learned two things about the Conservatives last week. First, that they’re planning to spend so much money at the next election that they can’t afford to return Frank Hester’s tainted millions. Second, that the election won’t be held in May. … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Party, John Major, politics, rishi-sunak, Tories
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‘The fading promises of COP28’, QMUL, 26 February 2024.
New Year’s resolutions are, as we all know, exuberant promises too often forgotten by mid-January. Likewise, the tenuous commitments made at COP28 already sound a little flat. And with elections taking place all over the world in 2024, you have … Continue reading
‘Reform’s success is not the real story of the by-elections’, Financial Times, 16 February 2024
If some of the more excitable commentary that has accompanied the news from Kingswood and Wellingborough is anything to go by, then the real story of this week’s by-elections is not so much a dreadful defeat for the Conservatives and … Continue reading
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