Tim Bale

@timbale.bsky.social

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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 .. more

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Timothy Paul Bale is an English political scientist who is professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Political science 83%

Sociology 6%

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 3h

Highly recommended. This is as good a 'New Year' take on where we are now politically, and on where we might be going, as you'll read anywhere. And beautifully-written too.

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨

I look ahead at the year to come, and what's going to be driving politics. Insurgent parties will look to solidify the 2025 surge, and the incumbents will try to stop them. But both Labour and Conservatives will struggle.

open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

2026: The Fragmentation Will Continue until Morale Improves

Some thoughts on the political year ahead

open.substack.com

Reposted by Tim Bale

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 3h

Not only does this not surprise me at all it’s a neat way of structuring the transaction to mitigate the potential cost of political risk — I think we’ll see this sort of term across the range of new arrangements with the EU.

www.ft.com/content/3733...

EU demands ‘Farage clause’ as part of Brexit reset talks with Britain

Brussels wants insurance in the event that Reform UK wins the next election

www.ft.com

Reposted by Tim Bale

Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 15h

Reform MPs declaring thousands of pounds earned by posting on X. Figures since July 2024. A platform we know amplifies far-right hate, division, xenophobia, transphobia and now also allows users to create CSEM via its Grok chatbot AI. From www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/they-say-t... #nomorehate

screengrab from a substack post. MP/Earned/Hours/Hourly Rate

Lee Anderson £3541.95 /203h/ £17.45ph
Nigel Farage £12926.42 /218h/ £59.30ph
Richard Tice £6411.00 / 150h / £42.74ph
Rupert Lowe £44996.77 /120h/ £374.97ph
Grand Total £67876.15 / 691h/ £98.23ph

declared earings and hours from registered members financial interests, pls see original post for full details https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/they-say-they-protect-women-and-children

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23h

So the pbk exists in the wild!?

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

But is it pbk or hbk?

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

That'll buff out

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 1d

This is the accurate headline

Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE

Victim-blaming began almost as soon as Renee Nicole Good was killed – we examine the claims and the reality

www.theguardian.com

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

How many employees have, either through their position of power, or just having it in their browser cache, committed possession/creation offences? How many could you make never pass a DBS ever again?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been told it should be a matter of weeks to resolve this. And while I have been made a number of promises like this which haven’t been delivered upon, print copies have started arriving with some vendors, so fingers crossed it won’t be long.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Still such a favourite.

'A lie to say "Oh my forest has trees that block the sun
And when I cut them down I don't answer to anyone"
No, no, never will he believe that his greed has a blinding ray
No devil or redeemer can cheat him
He'll take his gold where he's lying cold
Six deep in the grave.'

A Campfire Song

YouTube video by 10,000 Maniacs - Topic

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Reposted by Becky Francis, Andrew Scott, Tim Bale , and 1 more Becky Francis, Andrew Scott, Tim Bale, Margot C. Finn

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

How government engagement on X works. A wholly typical post and a wholly typical reply.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d

As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.

➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

Special Report: Stripped Tees

IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...

www.private-eye.co.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Dark Triad: The disturbing personality traits on the British Right

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Christopher McCabe, Tim Bale , and 3 more Steve Peers, Christopher McCabe, Tim Bale, John Foot, Tom Griffin, Pauline Stafford

The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 1d

Only Reform voters can save Labour

By Luke Akehurst

Only Reform voters can save Labour

A progressive coalition simply doesn't have the vote share

www.newstatesman.com

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Every cloud, I guess!

Did communist education systems improve public health?

Despite the failures of Soviet healthcare, communist education systems produced durable health benefits through physical education and gender equality in sport.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Reposted by Tim Bale, Tim Stephens, Jeroen Van Bouwel

Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

A headline for the ages www.politico.eu/article/fran...

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-delay-g7-white-house-donald-trump-birthday/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=France%20delays%20G7%20to%20avoid%20clash%20with%20White%20House%20cage%20fighting%20on%20Trump’s%20birthday

Reposted by Tim Bale, Ben Worthy

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

2026: The Fragmentation Will Continue until Morale Improves

Some thoughts on the political year ahead

open.substack.com

Reposted by Tim Bale

Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 2d

… where once the UK had its own serious conservative thinkers now we import everything from US via social media and US right wing think tanks. We need to take this more seriously my own view is that this is the death of European conservatism as an ideology (if not as a party @timbale.bsky.social )

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

Always on, Jonn. Always on.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

So not huge promises that they could never hope to keep, then?

Reform Councils Say 'Huge Headwinds' Are Thwarting Plans To Lower Tax

Reform UK-run local authorities are facing “huge headwinds”, one of the party’s cost-saving chiefs has admitted, as Nigel Farage’s party faces crit...

www.politicshome.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Tim Bale

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2d

The owner of X is celebrating the surge in traffic that has coincided with its industrial scale production of CSAM. He is acting with impunity because governments across the world are allowing him to do so.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 3d

If their parties held the balance of power in a hung parliament, current Lib Dem and Green voters would rather their parties backed Labour than either the Conservatives (59-69% vs 4-20%) or Reform UK (66-71% vs 3-7%)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...