Bright's Blog
Politics uncovered by Martin Bright, New Statesman political editor
While I was away...
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 12 May 2008
A week is a long time in politics as our political editor discovered
Were You Up For Webcameron?
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 02 May 2008
It's even worse than the worst Labour imagined. Martin Bright warns that if the Tories are smug about these results imagine how they will be after they win a general election
So what happens next...?
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 01 May 2008
Whatever the local election results, Gordon Brown faces a much bigger challenge: to convince sceptical voters that Labour deserves to stay in government
Does Anyone Mean What They Say?
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 30 April 2008
The Prime Minister is losing the argument on 42 days, but Cameron is still unconvincing standing up for our freedoms
Pulling the Finger Out
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 29 April 2008
The liberal-left commentariat is stepping up to the plate now the government is in trouble
Time for a New New Left Manifesto?
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 28 April 2008
41 years ago, the New Left came up with a May Day manifesto to renew progressive politics. The time has come for just such a document for the 21st century left
Gordon's big test
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 24 April 2008
The authority of the Prime Minister is based on economic competence and on knowing how to win elections. The coming days will see these skills tested to the limit
An Unlikely Rebel
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 23 April 2008
Stand up the first Labour MP to notice the implications of the abolition of 10p rate of tax
A Meeting of Civilisations
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 23 April 2008
The launch of the Quilliam Foundation was a meeting of Islam and the Enlightment without the usual apocalyptic language
Nadhmi Auchi and the Observer
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 22 April 2008
The Iraqi billonaire convicted of fraud in France has forced the Guardian-Observer to remove five articles from its website
What a way to run an investigation
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 21 April 2008
The Electoral Commission responds to my complaints about Ken Livingstone.
British jihad: Why our anti-terror strategy isn't working
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 03 April 2008
There is a deep and dangerous confusion at the heart of the government's approach to the threat posed by violent Islam
The end of history
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 27 March 2008
The twin anniversaries of 1968 and 2003 remind us that the story of the left is littered with utopian failures
The Emptiness of the Argument
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 25 March 2008
My last posting on the mayoral election caused some debate so I thought I'd wade straight back in
Greater Manchester Police get heavy with New Statesman writer
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- Posted by Martin Bright
- 19 March 2008
An encounter between a New Statesman journalist and the police
