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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The Blair Years

  • 26 November 2007
  • 3 comments

Watching officials come clean about the Iraq War is not a very edifying spectacle

I'm very pleased Nick's now aligned with me

  • 22 November 2007
  • 8 comments

After the spat with Lib Dem leadership rival Nick Clegg, Chris Huhne is unrepentant, determined to prove he's not a predictable, mushy-porridge politician.

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

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

''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

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

What did the Saudis know about 7/7?

  • 01 November 2007
  • 11 comments

King Abdullah says Britain's security services ignored Saudi warnings, but what exactly did those warnings disclose?

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.

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

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

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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