Stephen Bush Articles

There exists a dangerous tendency on the left which believes that government is a place where everything is beautiful, and nothing hurts. This week has been a reminder that government is frequently a place where nothing is beautiful and everything hurts. The 2012 case...

Success has many fathers, particularly if you are a member of Labour’s hard-left and you are discussing elections. The triumphs of 1997, 2001, or 2005 have any number of antecedents: Black Wednesday, John Major, John Redwood, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Michael Howard,...

Stephen Bush visits three of the Frontline 40 seats that Labour must win to secure a majority in 2015 Welcome to Norwich North: priority one on Labour’s path to a parliamentary majority, the first of the ‘Frontline 40’ seats identified by Progress that will constitute...

First, let’s talk about what yesterday’s speech by Ed Balls was not: it was not a hammer blow to the welfare state. I still believe that the universal principle is an essential pillar of the welfare state, but it’s more than a little bit overwrought to claim that a...