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Stephen Bush Articles

Confessions of a columnist

My maternal grandfather once tried to discourage my grandmother from coming to this country by telling her that the end of the apartheid regime was just around the corner. That was in 1966. Which puts my claim this time last year that 'the coalition might last to the...
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Better than a Blairite speech

In the end, what it really comes down to is what you think the role of ordinary trade unionists should be in the Labour party: should they be active and engaged, or should they exist to be invoked in favour of arguments you've already lost? On the ‘active and engaged’...
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Tests of nerve

His detractors think he’s Neil Kinnock. His adherents think he’s Barack Obama. But the politician who Ed Miliband most resembles is François Hollande. For the most part, that should cheer Labour: President Hollande is, after all, a wonkish and non-traditional leader...
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What I learned at the People’s Assembly

The People’s Assembly was an event for people who think that listing things you do not like in increasingly emotive terms will lead inevitably to the triumph of the things you do like. The day opened with a worthless plenary, but opening plenaries are always worthless...
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Regulate the people?

Regulate the people?

Oct 22, 2013 |

Andrew Mitchell deserved to be sacked. Ofsted demoralises teachers. The energy companies have the best of intentions,...