Tim Bale
Professor Tim "Dirty" Bale is an academic at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron and Chinese Food Made Easy.
His main research interests are in the fields of British, European and Comparative politics, especially in relation to centre-right and conservative politics.
He was the founding convenor of the Political Studies Association specialist group on Conservatives and Conservatism, which brings together leading scholars with an academic interest in this area.