Stephen Bush Articles

In the 1940s, George Orwell described Britain as ‘a family with the wrong members in control’. In the decades that followed, while the clan’s gnarled old patriarchs may have still spent more of the time with their hands on the family purse, those ambitious...

Three years ago Brighton residents elected a Green council. The results have not been pretty, finds Stephen Bush My heart sank. I had come to Brighton to talk to its residents and find out what they made of their Green council, and I had just wasted half an hour...

As England celebrates its national day tomorrow, Stephen Bush talks to voters about ‘Englishness’ and uncovers a worrying mood for Labour Where are you really from?’ When I am being polite, I tend to mumble something about South Africa. When I am feeling difficult, I...

Forty-nine. That’s the number of Syrian deaths not for every word, but every letter, in this column. (The preceding sentence represents 3,577 lives) Twenty years ago, the world watched the Rwandan genocide and said: ‘never again’. (3,381 lives) But ‘never again’ seems...