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
Darling holds his nerve
- 27 November 2008
- 5 comments
The Chancellor's refusal to panic has won him respect, but his biggest test still lies ahead
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Speculation about speculation
- 25 November 2008
Rumours of a June election just won't go away. But who is talking up a 2009 poll?
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Darling's Big Mini-Budget
- 24 November 2008
- 8 comments
The quiet man gets the tone right for the statement of his political career
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The travelling man
- 20 November 2008
- 6 comments
Gordon Brown likes to portray himself as a chancellor for the world. But he cannot keep leaving these shores with an election looming
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Sunday comment round-up -- 16 November 2008
- 16 November 2008
- 1 comment
A good week for Gordon Brown but why is the commentariat still unconvinced?
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Recession blues
- 13 November 2008
- 18 comments
Both Labour and Tories have yet to confront the realities of the downturn - least of the full horror of the return of mass unemployment. Martin Bright reports
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Two elections a world apart
- 08 November 2008
- 1 comment
The world was gripped by the election of Barack Obama, while the Glenrothes by-election demonstrated how parochial our own politics has become.
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Leaders-in-waiting
- 06 November 2008
- 6 comments
Whether they like it or not, Labour's senior figures still need to think about Gordon Brown's successor
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Why I'm on the outside
- 30 October 2008
- 8 comments
Membership of the Labour Party is, improbably, once more increasing. But the party must change if it is to win back most of its lost members
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George and Mandy Go Wild on Corfu
- 23 October 2008
- 5 comments
Sometimes its the incidental details of a scandal that are most revealing
