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
On parables and principles
- 19 June 2008
- 3 comments
Where is the David Davis of the left, prepared to resign and challenge the government's authoritarian agenda?
The Afghansti Prophecy
- 18 June 2008
- 1 comment
Peter Kosminsky's Afghansti touches a contemporary nerve
PM's speech on liberty
- 17 June 2008
- 4 comments
Gordon Brown does "small and intimate well" - he should give up the speeches
UK Politics
I Salute David Davis
- 12 June 2008
- 14 comments
The Conservative shadow Home Secretary has resigned over the introduction of 42 days without charge
UK Politics
Interview: Alistair Darling
- 12 June 2008
- 5 comments
Alistair Darling was once the safest pair of hands in the government. A year after becoming Chancellor, our political editor, Martin Bright, asks him where it all went wrong
UK Politics
Not enough fire in the belly
- 12 June 2008
- 5 comments
Labour's younger ministers are competent and assiduous, but none has yet emerged as inspirational. Will we need to skip a generation before someone arrives with the guts to carry out the necessary revolution?
A Challenge from Israel
- 10 June 2008
- 17 comments
Israel's ambassador suggests that Britain has become an anti-Israeli hotbed
Ken to run in 2012
- 10 June 2008
- 6 comments
Livingstone refuses to roll over and join the lecture circuit
Vindication of Channel 4's Ken film
- 09 June 2008
- 3 comments
The broadcast regulator has dismissed 12 complaints against the investigation by the New Statesman's Political Editor into City Hall under Ken Livingstone
UK Politics
Future visions
- 05 June 2008
- 8 comments
With the outlook so bleak for Labour, the government is reacting nervously to ideas of change. But some in the party have spent a long time developing new thoughts on how it can turn things around
