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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Eco Warriors Hit Heathrow

  • 24 May 2007

Evening Standard exclusive fails to credit the New Statesman

Labour's record on official secrecy

  • 21 May 2007

Check out Index on Censorship's latest issue...

Brown needs the left

  • 21 May 2007
  • 5 comments

The premier-in-waiting has been dismissive of his challengers. But, as Martin Bright reports, Brown will not be able to brush aside their politics for long... Read the Inside Track on the Blair succession with Peter Wilby, Kevin Maguire, the view from the other side with Tara Hamilton-Miller and Andrew Stephen with the view from Washington

Bush and Blair - The Suez Connection

  • 16 May 2007

A Guardian comment piece illustrates how history repeats itself

The BBC's Mr Angry

  • 15 May 2007
  • 26 comments

Why John Sweeney should be forgiven for losing it on Panorama's Scientology investigation

A Missile for Al-Jazeera

  • 14 May 2007

How the war is spun

An Outrageous Judgement

  • 14 May 2007
  • 2 comments

A recent official secrets trial is a danger to the freedom of the press

The second coming

  • 14 May 2007
  • 4 comments

As Tony Blair departs, Gordon Brown will launch a plan to transform Labour's style through constitutional change and "empathy".

What did we have the right to expect?

  • 10 May 2007

Blair announces he's going and it's the 'usual schmaltzy confection'

How to be completely irrelevant

  • 09 May 2007

You heard the one about the movie about the tortured young man?

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

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

On Syria

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

The interview

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

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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