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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Muslim Council of Britain to Attend Holocaust Memorial Day

  • 03 December 2007

The MCB has finally bowed to public pressure to do the decent thing

Labour's Dangerous Donors

  • 02 December 2007
  • 10 comments

The Observer's 4-page special on the funding scandal is essential reading. So are The Mail on Sunday's latest revelations.

The Pasquill campaign gathers pace

  • 02 December 2007
  • 2 comments

An excellent piece by my former colleague Nick Cohen in the Observer sums up the case of the Foreign Office civil servant who blew the whistle on the government's appeasement of radical Islam.

Right-wing newspaper identfies hidden hand of Zion shock

  • 01 December 2007
  • 19 comments

How the Telegraph spotted the international Zionist conspiracy at the heart of Labour's funding crisis.

Can it get any worse?

  • 30 November 2007
  • 3 comments

As Harriet Harman drags Gordon Brown deeper into the donor crisis I still wonder of the government has got it yet

The only way is up

  • 29 November 2007
  • 21 comments

The first step to recovery is for the government to recognise the gravity of the situation. Plus don't miss Inside Track - our unrivalled insights into UK politics

The Known Unknown

  • 28 November 2007

The Labour Party knew very well who David Abrahams was. He was invited to at least one gala dinner and attended party conference

Who is David Abrahams?

  • 28 November 2007
  • 1 comment

Apparently everyone seems to have encountered Labour's latest embarrassing donor, but no one realised he was trouble

My favourite blog just disappeared

  • 28 November 2007
  • 5 comments

The musings of an intern at Labour Party HQ. I assumed this was a spoof blog but then it disappeared as soon as I tried to find out more

Watt Who?

  • 26 November 2007

Finally Peter Watt does the decent thing

The interview

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

The interview

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

On Syria

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

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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