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
Calamity Brown
- 22 November 2007
- 11 comments
Martin Bright on the malaise at the heart of government - part of our unrivalled coverage in the Inside Track including an interview with Chris Huhne
UK Politics
Jacqui Smith: a question of courage?
- 15 November 2007
- 8 comments
Why do Labour Home Office ministers stumble so badly when they attempt to deal with immigration? Because the party is still fundamentally uncomfortable with the whole issue
Politics
''Brown and Cameron are illiterate and parochial''
- 15 November 2007
- 12 comments
Nick Clegg dismisses charges he's the right-wing candidate in the Lib Dem leadership election. He's eloquent and confident but it's no more Mr Nice Guy
UK Politics
The politics of fear
- 08 November 2007
- 6 comments
A legislative programme that contains many laudable goals will instead be dominated by authoritarianism, says our political editor - plus cross-party reaction to the Queen's Speech
Politics
What did the Saudis know about 7/7?
- 01 November 2007
- 10 comments
King Abdullah says Britain's security services ignored Saudi warnings, but what exactly did those warnings disclose?
UK Politics
Gordon's new friends
- 18 October 2007
- 1 comment
The removal of Menzies Campbell has done the Prime Minister several favours - not that he would be able to acknowledge that in public.
UK Politics
Adrian Mole for Prime Minister
- 16 October 2007
- 1 comment
The young guns of all three political parties will dominate the political landscape for years to come
UK Politics
Man of straw
- 11 October 2007
- 3 comments
So it was Jack Straw who counselled against an early election? Martin Bright reports on a politician who, after the event, always seems to be in the right
UK Politics
The big decision
- 04 October 2007
- 4 comments
Martin Bright on the calculations that guided Gordon Brown through the election fever and led him to make his decision
