Stephen Bush


Stephen Kupakwesu Bush is a British journalist and political editor of the New Statesman. He co-hosts the New Statesman podcast and writes for both the print magazine and NS website. Other publications for which he has written include The Guardian, the Financial Times and the i.

Education

Bush was educated at Morpeth School, a state comprehensive school in Globe Town, near Bethnal Green in East London, followed by Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where he studied history and was a member of the Oxford University Labour Club. Bush matriculated in 2008 and graduated in 2011.

Career

Bush worked for the magazine Progress before writing for The Daily Telegraph, including working on the Morning Briefing email. Bush joined the New Statesman from the Telegraph in February 2015. Later that year, he was the first political commentator to predict Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader in September 2015. He has also appeared on the BBC's current affairs programme Newsnight, commenting on UK politics, and was even tipped as an outsider to succeed Nick Robinson as the BBC's political editor in 2015, a position that eventually went to Laura Kuenssberg.
In 2015 Bush received a commendation and was runner-up in the Young Journalist of the Year awards category in the Press Awards.
From 2016 he has contributed a weekly column to The Guardians Lifestyle pages on cooking, called "The Delia Project", where he recounts his efforts to relearn cookery skills using only Delia Smith's Delia's Complete How to Cook.
In 2017, he was awarded the Political Studies Association's Journalist of the Year award.
In December 2018 he was appointed political editor of the New Statesman.
In June 2020 Bush, who is of Jewish heritage, was appointed to chair the Board of Deputies of British Jews' commission on racial inclusivity within the Jewish community.