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Stephen Bush Articles

The 12 per cent strategy

It seems almost impossible now to believe that Arsenal were top of the league on New Year’s Day. Now, instead of standing on the brink of their first championship since 2004, they are back where everyone expected them to be at the start of the season: clinging on...
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Why Martin Amis is wrong on Englishness

It was on page 55 that I forever fell out of love with Martin Amis. It was a lightning romance; our first date was the ease and light of The Rachel Papers. Our second and third – Koba the Dread and Time’s Arrow – got the heavy stuff out of the way. Then we spent the...
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What Tony Benn got right

My grandfather died two years ago this week. He was one of my heroes, but I have got to be honest: he was a career doctor. From his late teenage years and throughout his time at university, everything he did – even his year as a sabbatical officer at the student union...
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What happens in Ukraine will not stay in Ukraine

For the first time in my life, I would like nothing more than for Seamus Milne and Owen Jones to be right. A fortnight ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. This may be that Vladimir Putin is a revanchist autocrat. Or it may be the fault of the United States. It could well be...
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Never again?

Never again?

Apr 8, 2014 |

Forty-nine. That’s the number of Syrian deaths not for every word, but every letter, in this column. (The preceding...