Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Think you know who will be the next PM? Think again . . . and again’, Times, 11 July 2017
- ‘The Tories’ deal with the DUP papers over the cracks, but it can’t work miracles’, Telegraph, 26 June 2017.
- ‘EU referendum: one year on – political parties’, UK in a Changing Europe, 26 June 2017.
- ‘Was it the Labour doorstep or the Labour smartphone that swung it for Jeremy?’, UK Election Analysis, 2017, 19 June 2017
- ‘The Tory party is more useless than nasty’, Prospect, 20 June 2017.
- ‘DEBATE: Does Theresa May’s failure to win a majority lay the path for another election before the end of the year? YES’, CityAM, 12 June 2017
- ‘Forget culture wars, the election was about power, cash and opportunity’, Observer, 11 June 2017
- ‘The Conservatives have a leadership decision to make’, Financial Times, 9 June 2017
- ‘Forward Together: What the Tory manifesto says about Europe’, UK in a Changing Europe, 21 May 2017
- ‘Greens can thrive as a party on the margins’, Times, 31 May 2017
Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
‘The Tory party is more useless than nasty’, Prospect, 20 June 2017.
A recently published review seems to sum the Conservative Party’s general election pretty well, no? In fact, the portrait of the … campaign that emerges from these pages is that of a Titanic-like disaster: an epic fail made up of … Continue reading
‘The Conservative Party and Business have fallen in and out of love for decades’, The Conversation, 11 October 2016.
Given the potential impact of a so-called “hard Brexit” on bottom lines, as well as the less-than-friendly tone of recent ministerial and prime ministerial interventions, it’s hardly surprising that relations between the British government and business have been pretty strained … Continue reading
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‘The Forgotten Cecil Parkinson’, New Statesman, 26 January 2016
When most people who were around in the 1980s think of Cecil Parkinson, they will recall only one thing – his affair with Sara Keays and his subsequent resignation. But he actually deserves to be remembered for far more than that. Indeed, … Continue reading
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‘Margaret Thatcher: the Authorised Biography. Volume Two: Everything She Wants’, Irish Times, 24 October 2015
Margaret Thatcher has been as lucky with her biographers as she was with her enemies. Her governments returned Britain to levels of unemployment it hadn’t seen since the 1930s and presumed it would never see again, yet she was able … Continue reading
‘Inside the Tory Mind’, Progress, 3 February 2014
The past often sheds light on the present, either by throwing up stark contrasts or by revealing eerie similarities. Stuart Ball’s book, Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918-1945, which came out last year, provides plenty of … Continue reading
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