Martin Bright

Martin Bright

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.

Articles by Martin Bright

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PM's speech on liberty

  • 17 June 2008
  • 4 comments

Gordon Brown does "small and intimate well" - he should give up the speeches

I Salute David Davis

  • 12 June 2008
  • 15 comments

The Conservative shadow Home Secretary has resigned over the introduction of 42 days without charge

Interview: Alistair Darling

  • 12 June 2008
  • 5 comments

Alistair Darling was once the safest pair of hands in the government. A year after becoming Chancellor, our political editor, Martin Bright, asks him where it all went wrong

Not enough fire in the belly

  • 12 June 2008
  • 5 comments

Labour's younger ministers are competent and assiduous, but none has yet emerged as inspirational. Will we need to skip a generation before someone arrives with the guts to carry out the necessary revolution?

A Challenge from Israel

  • 10 June 2008
  • 17 comments

Israel's ambassador suggests that Britain has become an anti-Israeli hotbed

Ken to run in 2012

  • 10 June 2008
  • 8 comments

Livingstone refuses to roll over and join the lecture circuit

Vindication of Channel 4's Ken film

  • 09 June 2008
  • 3 comments

The broadcast regulator has dismissed 12 complaints against the investigation by the New Statesman's Political Editor into City Hall under Ken Livingstone

Future visions

  • 05 June 2008
  • 8 comments

With the outlook so bleak for Labour, the government is reacting nervously to ideas of change. But some in the party have spent a long time developing new thoughts on how it can turn things around

New Ideas? No thanks

  • 04 June 2008
  • 2 comments

A thoughtful discussion of liberalism and Labour provokes charges of treachery

The Flimsiness of the 42 Days Argument Exposed

  • 04 June 2008
  • 1 comment

Simon Jenkins gets it right

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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