Stephen Bush Articles

I went to a school that was majority Muslim. I also went to a school that banned the burka. Unlike in Birmingham, where the Birmingham Metropolitan College was recently forced to undo its explicit ban, my school banned the veil through inference; the uniform code was...

As the TUC meets in Bournemouth, Stephen Bush discovers that the early history of the trade unions may offer the best route to their future The trade unions did not just found the Labour party. They built the modern world. In 1868, when the Trades Union Congress first...

It was when Theresa May became a cabinet minister that I really realised that David Cameron didn’t share my values. It was the night that the coalition was formed, and, as I often do when things haven’t gone my way, I turned to the bottle. Some friends and I headed to...

How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq whenever possible. Unfortunately, the anti-war movement is a...