Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Tim Bale
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This, by @siennarodgers.bsky.social, is characteristically excellent. A highly recommended read.
Oh, FFS @theguardian.com 'Hard Right' AGAIN? Why can't you just call a spade a spade?
"Politicians generally want to be seen offering immediate solutions where issues arise. But here they risk playing into profoundly damaging narratives for societal cohesion, while upending arrangements that thousands rely upon on a daily basis."
This is such a complex + rushed set of reforms that I think many people are simply unaware of just how many problems that implementing it could have for the government over the next 2-3 years - particularly on its lack of attention to the lessons of the Windrush scandal
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Almost all the stories about the making of Escape To Victory are contested, but one I like is that when they were shooting the amazing Pele bicycle kick goal, Sivell messed up... by saving it.
This is outrageous.
When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.
This is how they talk in private.
Quite rare to see it in public.
But also: wtf?
Can't help but wonder whether Labour members are about to discover that St Andy is not the messiah but is, in fact, just as much of a naughty boy as Sir Keir.
Instead we've got a government that still uses a site run by a foreign inciter of pogroms as its main communication channel.
Andy Burnham supporters are increasingly optimistic about Makerfield. Sienna Rodgers explores what comes after the by-election
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Violence continued in Belfast after a man from Sudan was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack.
Sunder Katwala looks at the government's proposed reforms to the settlement rules in the UK as part of its immigration overhaul and asks whether they could meet the fairness challenge.
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It is not enough to revile them both. Understanding the personal and ideological divergence is essential to taking back the ground they now occupy, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
