Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

‘Blue on blue: the 10 greatest Tory feuds’, New Statesman, 14 August 2017.

Posted on August 20, 2017 by

The Conservatives have descended into infighting over Europe, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone – they have been at each other’s throats many times before. The Tory expert Tim Bale provides a guide to the most acrimonious feuds, starting in 1945… … Continue reading →

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‘The Tory party is more useless than nasty’, Prospect, 20 June 2017.

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

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 →

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‘The Conservative Party and Business have fallen in and out of love for decades’, The Conversation, 11 October 2016.

Posted on October 25, 2016 by

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

Posted on February 14, 2016 by

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

Posted on December 30, 2015 by

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 →

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‘Inside the Tory Mind’, Progress, 3 February 2014

Posted on February 9, 2014 by

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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