Tim Stanley

{{short description|British journalist and historian (born 1982)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Tim Stanley | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Timothy Randolph Stanley | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|04|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Sevenoaks, Kent, England | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | education = The Judd School | alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge <br>(BA, MPhil, PhD) | occupation = {{hlist|Writer|journalist|lecturer|broadcaster}} | years_active = 2006–present | awards = | website = {{URL|http://www.timothystanley.co.uk}} }}

'''Timothy Randolph Stanley''' (born 1 April 1982) is a British journalist, author and historian.<ref>[https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/tim-stanley/ www.bloomsbury.com]</ref>

==Early life and education== Educated at The Judd School, a grammar school in Tonbridge, Kent,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2016-10-11 |title=US political expert gives insight into election of next President |url=https://www.timeslocalnews.co.uk/tonbridge-news/us-political-expert-gives-insight-into-election-of-next-president/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Times Local News {{!}} Times of Tunbridge Wells}}</ref> Stanley taught as a gap student at Solefield School, Sevenoaks,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alumni {{!}} Solefield School |url=https://www.solefieldschool.org/alumni-old-boys |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=www.solefieldschool.org}}</ref> before reading modern history at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts (BA).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Tim Stanley |url=https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/tim-stanley |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=podcasts.ox.ac.uk |date=28 September 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

Stanley then pursued postgraduate studies at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, completing a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree, then taking a doctorate of Philosophy (PhD).<ref name=":0" /><ref name="thesis">{{cite thesis |last= Stanley |first= Timothy Randolph |date= |title= Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party, 1977-1981 |degree= PhD |publisher= University of Cambridge |url= https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/44CAM_INST/1pu7bb6/alma99305914103606 |accessdate= 23 September 2025}}</ref>

Stanley was raised as a Baptist.<ref name="tsromney">{{cite news|last=Stanley|first=Tim|title=Romney is finally ahead in national polls. Watch the liberals cry tears of unfathomable sadness|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100184588/romney-is-finally-ahead-in-national-polls-watch-the-liberals-cry-tears-of-unfathomable-sadness|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012234532/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100184588/romney-is-finally-ahead-in-national-polls-watch-the-liberals-cry-tears-of-unfathomable-sadness/|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 October 2012|access-date=30 October 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=10 October 2012|location=London}}</ref> In 2002 he began to consider himself to be an Anglican, and was baptised as an Anglican at Little St. Mary's, Cambridge, in New Year 2003. He subsequently aligned himself with the Church of England's Anglo-Catholic wing,<ref name=rowan>{{cite web |last=Stanley |first=Tim |title=Rowan Williams failed because his leadership was as schizophrenic as his church |url=http://timothystanley.co.uk/1/post/2012/03/rowan-williams-failed-because-his-leadership-was-a-schizophrenic-as-his-church.html |website=timstanley.co.uk |access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref> before being received into the Catholic Church, aged 23.<ref name=catholic>{{cite web |last=Stanley |first=Tim |title=The Catholic Church could do with a shot of Santorum's zeal |url=http://timothystanley.co.uk/1/post/2012/02/why-i-quite-like-rick-santorum-even-if-many-catholics-dont.html |website=timstanley.co.uk |access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref>

Stanley was active in student journalism at Cambridge and contributing to student newspaper ''Varsity''.

==Academic career== Stanley held lectureships at the University of Sussex (2008–09) and Royal Holloway College, London (2009–11) and, from 2011 to 2012, he became an associate member of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, receiving a Leverhulme Trust Grant.<ref name="ht">{{cite news |last=Stanley |first=Tim |date=October 2011 |title=The Contrarian: History Predicts A Riot |url=http://www.historytoday.com/tim-stanley/contrarian-history-predicts-riot |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907105543/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/contrarian/contrarian-history-predicts-riot |archive-date=2019-09-07 |access-date=30 October 2012 |newspaper=HistoryToday.com}}</ref>

In November 2011, Stanley organised a conference called ''History: What is it good for?'',<ref>{{cite web |title=TheFutureofHistory.org |url=http://www.thefutureofhistory.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103042217/http://www.thefutureofhistory.org/ |archive-date=3 January 2012}}</ref> which generated some controversy after one of the speakers, David Starkey, said that the national curriculum in British schools overlooks British culture.<ref name=starkey>{{cite news |title=David Starkey in new row over 'mono-culture' comments |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8890624/David-Starkey-in-new-row-over-mono-culture-comments.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=15 November 2011 |access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref>

==Media== Stanley is a columnist with ''The Daily Telegraph'' and also co-hosts its podcast ''The Daily T'' with Camilla Tominey. He has also been a regular contributor to CNN,<ref name=tblogs>{{cite news|title=Tim Stanley at Telegraph Blogs|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/timstanley/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416084730/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/timstanley/|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 April 2011|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=30 October 2012|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=On tour abroad, Trump does what Obama should have|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/opinions/on-tour-abroad-trump-does-what-obama-should-have-stanley/index.html |first=Timothy |last=Stanley |date=23 May 2017 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> reporting on American politics and culture, including the 2016 and subsequent election campaigns. He contributes to ''History Today''<ref name=tsht>{{cite web|title=Tim Stanley at History Today|url=http://www.historytoday.com/author/tim-stanley|access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref> and ''Literary Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/contributors/tim-stanley|title=Literary Review – For People Who Devour Books|website=Literary Review}}</ref> and has written pieces for ''The Guardian''<ref name=tsguardian>{{cite news|title=Tim Stanley at The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/timothy-stanley|work=The Guardian|access-date=30 October 2012|location=London|date=23 February 2011}}</ref> and ''The Spectator''.<ref name=tsts>{{cite web|title=Tim Stanley at The Spectator|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/author/tim-stanley/|work=The Spectator|access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref>

Stanley wrote and presented a documentary for the BBC entitled ''Family Guys? What Sitcoms Say About America Now'', which was broadcast in October 2012.<ref name=cartoons>{{cite news |last=Stanley |first=Tim |title=What sitcoms say about American voters |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20067565 |publisher=BBC News |date=26 October 2012 |access-date=30 October 2012}}</ref> He is also an occasional pundit on BBC News, CNBC, Sky News and ''Channel 4 News''.

He has presented BBC Radio 4's ''Thought for the Day'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p058dfly|title=BBC Radio 4 – Thought for the Day, Tim Stanley – 11/07/17|date=11 July 2017 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> is a contributor on ''The Moral Maze''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08yq2bn|title=BBC Radio 4 – Moral Maze, Morality and Gender Equality|publisher=BBC}}</ref> and has appeared several times on the panel of the BBC's ''Question Time''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073gmwl|title=BBC One – Question Time, 10/03/2016|publisher=BBC}}</ref> and ''Politics Live''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001906y|title=BBC Two – Politics Live, 05/07/2022|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

==Politics== Joining the Labour Party at the age of 15,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timothystanley.co.uk/|title=Home|website=timothystanley.co.uk}}</ref> Stanley was chairman of Cambridge University Labour Club for 2003/04, and stood as the Labour candidate for his home constituency of Sevenoaks at the 2005 general election, coming third.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/jul/04/labour.uk |title=Gordon Brown take note |work=The Guardian |date=4 July 2006 |first=Tim |last=Stanley}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/what-drew-tim-stanley-to-catholicism/ |title=What drew Tim Stanley to Catholicism |work=The Tablet |date=1 December 2021 |first=Peter |last=Stanford}}</ref> He has since distanced himself from Labour,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timothystanley.co.uk/1/post/2012/09/ed-miliband-isnt-weird-hes-just-hollow.html|title=Tim Stanley, history and politics|last=Stanley|first=Timothy|date=|website=|publisher=|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913221900/http://www.timothystanley.co.uk/1/post/2012/09/ed-miliband-isnt-weird-hes-just-hollow.html|archive-date=13 September 2016|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref> and has argued in support of the Republican Party in the United States.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100187943/dan-hodges-and-tim-stanley-debate-barack-obama-and-the-mendacity-of-hope/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109030209/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100187943/dan-hodges-and-tim-stanley-debate-barack-obama-and-the-mendacity-of-hope/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 November 2012 | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Dan Hodges and Tim Stanley debate: Barack Obama and the mendacity of hope | date=6 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100187919/dan-hodges-and-tim-stanley-debate-if-i-werent-a-godless-obamaniac-tim-might-have-got-me-backing-romney/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108144502/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100187919/dan-hodges-and-tim-stanley-debate-if-i-werent-a-godless-obamaniac-tim-might-have-got-me-backing-romney/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 November 2012 | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Dan Hodges and Tim Stanley debate: If I weren't a godless Obamaniac, Tim might have got me backing Romney | date=6 November 2012}}</ref> At the 2017 general election, Stanley allied himself with the Conservative Party, voting for them again in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stanley |first=Tim |date=7 June 2017 |title=Why I'm voting Tory for the first time ever |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-i-m-voting-tory-for-the-first-time-ever/ |access-date=9 April 2024 |work=The Spectator |location=London}}</ref> Stanley announced his voting preference in favour of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) at the 2024 general election, preferring its emphasis on national solidarity to that of Reform whose focus was on British exceptionalism.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stanley |first=Tim |date=8 July 2023 |title= Farage doesn't want to crush our liberal order, he wants to save it |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/08/farage-save-liberal-order-france-le-pen/ |access-date=8 July 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref>

Stanley supported the UK leaving the European Union.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stanley |first=Tim |date=2019-03-28 |title=Brexit is a mess, but I have full confidence in the British spirit |url=https://thecatholicherald.com/brexit-is-a-mess-but-i-have-full-confidence-in-the-british-spirit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425184659/https://thecatholicherald.com/brexit-is-a-mess-but-i-have-full-confidence-in-the-british-spirit/ |archive-date=2025-04-25 |access-date=2025-09-01 |website=Catholic Herald |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Personal life== Stanley lives in Kent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tim Stanley |url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/speaker/tim-stanley/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Battle of Ideas |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Stanley |first=Tim |date=2021-06-09 |title=He's my happiest mistake – but what am I going to do with my lockdown puppy? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/happiest-mistake-going-do-lockdown-puppy/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |work=The Daily Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

==Publications== *Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee, ''The End of Politics: Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground'' (London: Politico's, London, 2006) {{ISBN|9781842751749}} *Timothy Stanley, ''Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul'' (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010) {{ISBN|9780700617029}} *Timothy Stanley, ''The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan'' (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2012) {{ISBN|9780312581749}} *Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley (eds.), ''Making Sense of American Liberalism'' (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2012) {{ISBN|9780252036866}} *Timothy Stanley, ''Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics'' (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) {{ISBN|9781250032492}} *Tim Stanley, ''Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West'' (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021) {{ISBN|9781472974129}}

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