Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Sussex University and is the author of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron, an updated version of which is published in paperback this week. It should come as no surprise that one of the Conservative Ministers most comfortable with seeing the Party’s relationship with the Lib Dems […]
Dr Tim Bale is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Sussex University and is the author of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron, published this week by Polity Press. He will be launching the book this Wednesday, 3rd February, at a public lecture and Q&A at the LSE which will be chaired by ConservativeHome’s Jonathan […]
Tim Bale is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Sussex University and his book, The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron, is due for publication early next year. Judging from the discussions at a round table on the Scottish Conservatives held recently at the University of Strathclyde there seems to be widespread agreement that, after a […]
Tim Bale teaches politics at Sussex University and is writing a book on the Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron. Here he looks at the tension between the "politics of power" and the "politics of support" for the Conservatives. David Cameron must already rank as one of the most skillful leaders of the opposition this […]
Tim Bale teaches politics at Sussex University and is writing a book on the Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron. I’m not alone in thinking Eastbourne by-election did for Margaret Thatcher, though I may of course be biased. Having grown up there, it’s nice to think my home town might be a footnote in history, […]
Tim Bale teaches politics at Sussex University and is writing a book on the Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron. Here he analyses David Cameron’s challenges in changing the party, a topic he will be speaking on at this weekend’s Political Studies Association conference. So it looks like the polls, and therefore the party, are […]
Tim Bale returned to the UK in 2003 after five years working in New Zealand in order to teach politics at Sussex University. He specialises in British and comparative party politics. Because of the linguistic, cultural and media ties we share with the US, and with countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand, people in […]
Tim Bale returned to the UK in 2003 after five years working in New Zealand in order to teach politics at Sussex University. He specialises in British and comparative party politics. David Cameron’s first few months at the helm suggest he is far from being ‘all spin and no substance’. Distracting policies have been ditched, […]
Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Sussex University and is the author of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron, an updated version of which was recently published in paperback. Normally I'm more than happy to sneak a peek over the paywall to read Rachel Sylvester, but today I think she's got it wrong. […]