Stephen Bush Articles

There are just 72 weeks between now and the next election. Do you think we might go just one without talking about immigration? This week’s offender is Roger Daltrey, formerly of the Who and once a Labour supporter, but – he says – after the rampant immigration of the...

After a break-up, you have two options. There is reassurance: I did nothing wrong, it could have happened to anyone, I was a victim of circumstance. But then there is reappraisal: when you have to concede that the whole thing was at least partly – perhaps wholly –...

Labour’s left flank is often portrayed as wanting to drag the party back to 1983, but the reality is they haven’t got as far as 1848: they know there is a problem with capitalism, they are certainly very angry about it, but they are not yet clear what to do about it....

The election that Labour should worry about most isn’t 1992 – when an exhausted and recessional administration beat an unreformed opposition right at the death – and it certainly isn’t 1983, when a triumphant and successful government carried all before it. It’s 1966....