Forty-nine. That’s the number of Syrian deaths not for every word, but every letter, in this column. (The preceding...
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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...
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...
The ‘two o’clock awkward’
I used to think of it as the 'two o’clock awkward': that moment in conversation, usually late at night, often in the...
Winning a mandate for London
When is a hustings not a hustings? Well, when the only declared candidate for the office in question – the Labour...
Changing the subject
There are just 72 weeks between now and the next election. Do you think we might go just one without talking about...
From reassurance to reappraisal
After a break-up, you have two options. There is reassurance: I did nothing wrong, it could have happened to anyone, I...
More IPPR, less Class
Labour’s left flank is often portrayed as wanting to drag the party back to 1983, but the reality is they haven’t got...
1966 and all that
The election that Labour should worry about most isn’t 1992 – when an exhausted and recessional administration beat an...
Regulate the people?
Andrew Mitchell deserved to be sacked. Ofsted demoralises teachers. The energy companies have the best of intentions,...
The voters: dissolve or educate?
Would it not be easier, Bertolt Brecht once mused, to simply dissolve the people and elect another? German dramatists...
The strange survival of Liberal England
Winning Liberal Democrat-held seats in 2015 will be no walk in the park for Labour, warns Stephen Bush For Labour,...