Stephen Bush Articles

Andrew Mitchell deserved to be sacked. Ofsted demoralises teachers. The energy companies have the best of intentions, and if you regulate the banks they’ll just move to Geneva. The players change, but the song remains the same: people in positions of power think they...

Would it not be easier, Bertolt Brecht once mused, to simply dissolve the people and elect another? German dramatists make unlikely political gurus, but Brecht’s fingerprints can be found all over Labour’s Next Majority, Marcus Roberts’ pathway to a parliamentary...

Winning Liberal Democrat-held seats in 2015 will be no walk in the park for Labour, warns Stephen Bush For Labour, liberal voters are like the prodigal son: they have spent the last few decades wandering, but they are, at last, ready to come home. For the first time...

A confession: I do not really ‘get’ conference speeches. Like dubstep, it seems to mean a lot to a great number of people, but it’s all just noise to me. It seems to me, though, that the best guide to how much – or how little – it all meant isn’t in how we felt in the...