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 West's best interests

  • 09 May 2007
  • 2 comments

How Western governments need to be more imaginative in the pursuit of partners in the Muslim community

Will rich Tory donors buy the next election?

  • 09 May 2007

The sobering messages that can be drawn from the local elections

A Blair-sized hole

  • 07 May 2007
  • 3 comments

As the Prime Minister prepares to depart these shores with his interfaith foundation, it may not be as easy as Gordon Brown might think to fill his shoes.

Labour's civil liberties deal has been broken

  • 01 May 2007

It's amazing how we've given police and the security services the benefit of the doubt

What Brown could learn from Blair

  • 30 April 2007

Breakfast with the prime minister plus how not to question Tony Blair...

A good month to bury bad news

  • 30 April 2007
  • 1 comment

John Reid is planning to use the Blair-Brown interregnum to shovel out all the overdue business of a famously dysfunctional department

Splitting the Home Office in two

  • 25 April 2007
  • 1 comment

Union man's disappointment

  • 23 April 2007
  • 3 comments

Bright is frustrated at the NUJ's decision to boycott Israel

The darker side of Dave

  • 23 April 2007
  • 11 comments

As the media hunt for a challenger to Gordon Brown, they have all but ignored the real agenda of David Cameron's Conservatives.

Follow the money

  • 19 April 2007

The Tory who lent David Cameron's party millions but pays no tax and retains his peerage

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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