Stephen Bush Articles

If you want an insight into how the 2015 election might play out, don’t look at the results of the local elections. Look at the new five-pound note. When Winston Churchill replaces Elizabeth Fry on the back of the fiver, notes in England and Wales will celebrate a...

The past is a foreign country; you remember the lovely meals, the better weather and the prettier locals. You forget the screaming row on the first night, the broken shower-rail and the closed museum. This year, there’s a sense that we no longer as a nation really...

‘Death is not the end,’ a poet writes, ‘Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.’ The Thatcher era wasn’t brought to a close with the death of Margaret Thatcher. The end came with the election of Tony Blair. Yes, there were hangovers. The social...

David Miliband waited until he was almost out of the door to remind us all why we loved him. A simple statement on his website: that he would, not, as he had said before, be continuing his relationship with Sunderland Football Club, for the simple as vice-chair of the...