Stephen Bush Articles

Why does Benefits Street make us so angry? Yes, it exploits people, but so do such Reithian delights as ‘My Daughter The Teenage Nudist’, ‘The Undateables’ or ‘Secrets of the Living Dolls’; exploiting people for public entertainment seems to be Channel 4’s raison...

Throw a brick at a Liberal Democrat MP and you have more chance of hitting a knight of the realm than a woman. Which, if nothing else, goes to show that all the arguments against all-women shortlists are bunk. Unfortunately, what it doesn’t show is that the Rennard...

The original agreement was ‘a document designed to please the Liberal party, rather than the Liberal voter’. The larger party didn’t even take the time to put the agreement to its backbenchers, let alone the party membership. The hope was that the alliance would lead...

Immigration is like a queue in a restaurant: the punters might not like it, but a canny manager knows that it is both a sign and a cause of success. The sad truth of the last few days is that a new group of customers have decided to dine elsewhere; that they’ve looked...