Comment Why 2015 is about marginal seats more than national stats Today sees the release of the British Election Study . I love this data for its depth and breadth… Marcus Roberts 9th December, 2014, 3:17 pm
Comment 5 summer reads for the politically minded Each year I spend a good chunk of the run-up to the Summer holidays cajoling overworked PPCs and… Marcus Roberts 28th July, 2014, 7:30 am
Comment The memory of being moved to tears by a politician’s death I was walking across the schoolyard in Edinburgh twenty years ago today when a friend stopped me to say that… Marcus Roberts 12th May, 2014, 8:38 pm
Comment Welcome to Radical Labour The Spectator have a cover cartoon this week that at first seems pretty hard hitting. It shows Ed Miliband… Marcus Roberts 1st May, 2014, 5:48 pm
Comment Raising our game: 5 things Labour can do to counter Messina The Tories’ near-million pound hire of Jim Messina is a brilliant psy-op against Labour. We love Obama, we’re proud of… Marcus Roberts 3rd August, 2013, 2:49 pm
Comment Deconstructing Labour’s tax credit counter-offensive It will never be out of fashion to write stories about divisions between a Leader and a Chancellor… Marcus Roberts 12th December, 2012, 3:10 pm
Comment Then there was Barack Obama… I lost in 2000. I was an intern on Capitol Hill and went off to work on the… Marcus Roberts 7th November, 2012, 7:37 am
Comment It’s Game Day Election day. When all the clever maths, long hours and fevered speculation* comes to a close and all… Marcus Roberts 6th November, 2012, 7:32 am
Comment Debate Verdict: Say hello to “Commander-in-Chief” Obama The big fear for Democrats tonight was that the President of the United States wouldn’t turn up and… Marcus Roberts 23rd October, 2012, 7:29 am
Comment David Cameron – you are no Bill Clinton The bar had been set high for David Cameron this morning: first by Ed and then by Boris.… Marcus Roberts 10th October, 2012, 12:35 pm