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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UK Politics
Culture of denial
- 08 May 2008
- 16 comments
Ministers say they will listen and learn. But the message they will hear won't offer them much cheer
UK Politics
Were You Up For Webcameron?
- 02 May 2008
- 19 comments
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
UK Politics
So what happens next...?
- 01 May 2008
- 12 comments
Whatever the local election results, Gordon Brown faces a much bigger challenge: to convince sceptical voters that Labour deserves to stay in government
UK Politics
Does Anyone Mean What They Say?
- 30 April 2008
- 1 comment
The Prime Minister is losing the argument on 42 days, but Cameron is still unconvincing standing up for our freedoms
Pulling the Finger Out
- 29 April 2008
- 3 comments
The liberal-left commentariat is stepping up to the plate now the government is in trouble
Time for a New New Left Manifesto?
- 28 April 2008
- 2 comments
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
Politics
Gordon's big test
- 24 April 2008
- 4 comments
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
- 23 April 2008
- 3 comments
Stand up the first Labour MP to notice the implications of the abolition of 10p rate of tax
A Meeting of Civilisations
- 23 April 2008
- 9 comments
The launch of the Quilliam Foundation was a meeting of Islam and the Enlightment without the usual apocalyptic language
UK Politics
What a way to run an investigation
- 21 April 2008
- 8 comments
The Electoral Commission responds to my complaints about Ken Livingstone.









