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
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…
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…
Welcome to Radical Labour
The Spectator have a cover cartoon this week that at first seems pretty hard hitting. It shows Ed Miliband…
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…
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…
Then there was Barack Obama…
I lost in 2000. I was an intern on Capitol Hill and went off to work on the…
It’s Game Day
Election day. When all the clever maths, long hours and fevered speculation* comes to a close and all…
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…
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.…
