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Politics uncovered by Martin Bright, New Statesman political editor

While I was away...

A week is a long time in politics as our political editor discovered

Were You Up For Webcameron?

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...?

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?

  • 1 comments
  • 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

  • 3 comments
  • 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?

  • 2 comments
  • 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

  • 4 comments
  • 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

  • 3 comments
  • 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

  • 8 comments
  • 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

  • 3 comments
  • 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

  • 8 comments
  • 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

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

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

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

  • 8 comments
  • Posted by Martin Bright
  • 19 March 2008

An encounter between a New Statesman journalist and the police

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Martin Bright began his journalistic career writing in very simple English for a magazine aimed at French school children. This experience has informed his style ever since. He worked for the BBC World Service, and The Guardian before joining the Observer as Education Correspondent. He went on to become Home Affairs Editor before becoming the New Statesman's political editor in 2005.

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While I was away...

  • By Martin Bright
  • 12 May 2008

Were You Up For Webcameron?

  • By Martin Bright
  • 02 May 2008

So what happens next...?

  • By Martin Bright
  • 01 May 2008

Does Anyone Mean What They Say?

  • By Martin Bright
  • 30 April 2008

Pulling the Finger Out

  • By Martin Bright
  • 29 April 2008

Time for a New New Left Manifesto?

  • By Martin Bright
  • 28 April 2008

Gordon's big test

  • By Martin Bright
  • 24 April 2008

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