Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Why Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP, only to stand again – expert analysis: Self-pity and self-obsession’, The Conversation, 7 July 2026.
- ‘There’s one thing that could revive Farage’s fortunes’, Independent, 29 June 2026.
- ‘Migration, Brexit, and Starmer’s exit: Inside Britain’s political meltdown’, Anadolu Agency, 23 June 2026
- ‘Brexit might just have killed the Conservative Party’, LSE Blog, 18 June 2026
- Electoral reform for the UK? Don’t bet on it, Financial Times, 3 June 2026.
- ‘Britain’s “ungovernable” decade’, Anadolu Ajansı, 21 May 2026.
- ‘Dumping Starmer won’t reverse Labour’s fortunes [unless….]’, New Statesman, 12 May 2026
- ‘Will Nigel Farage overtake the prime minister as the U-turn leader?’, Independent, 2 April 2026
- ‘Polarised and Powerful: Party Members in British Politics’, Political Insight, 18 March 2026.
- ‘Political treachery is a dangerous art. Streeting must perfect it if he wants to wear the crown’, Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2026.
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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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‘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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‘Tories’ worst nightmare is coming true as Reform threat proves real’, Daily Express, 16 February 2024
Both the Prime Minister and his opposite number have had a torrid time of it over the last week. Things began particularly badly for Starmer, when anti-Semitic remarks made by Labour’s candidate in Rochdale, Azhar Ali, came to light. They … Continue reading
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‘The plotters, the coup and Farage’s path to the Tory throne’, Daily Telegraph, 27 January 2024.
Tory nerves have been fraying for months. But with the publication of a survey predicting the loss of nearly 200 seats, funded (apparently to the tune of £40,000) by the so-far-so-mysterious “Conservative Britain Alliance”, there’s a serious risk of full-blown … Continue reading
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