David Lipsey

Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential election was a personal triumph, but it was also a triumph for the centre-Left. Read more

The US party conventions spark typical British condescension towards our largest former colony. We regard them as exercises in vulgar razzmatazz compared with the deeply serious business done at our own party conferences. Read more

Gordon Brown could still be prime minister in 2011 — really. Here are a few reasons why. Read more

Whoever wins the Democratic nomination in the US, the opinion polls will be the losers. Primary after primary, poll-based newspaper headlines have announced that Barack Obama is in the lead or Hillary Clinton clear. Primary after primary, the ballot box has told a different story.

No doubt, pollsters will claim that they share the blame Read more

Modern British politics has been about incomes. If real incomes are rising, so the conventional wisdom goes, then the government will be sitting pretty whatever else it is messing up. Read more

Gordon Brown dares do what Tony Blair wanted to do. Read more

What do last week’s elections tell us about the prospects for the next general election? Read more

On March 19, I was one of a delegation from the all-party parliamentary betting and gaming group seeing Treasury minister John Healey about the taxation of online gambling. Read more

Remember Christmas? No, not last week’s (I hope you had a good one) but the ones when you were a child: an exciting pile of lumpy presents, piled round the tree, while you guessed at their likely content. Read more