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
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
Mr Nadmi Auchi (an update)
- 04 June 2008
- 6 comments
The Iraqi billionaire convicted of fraud in France has forced the Guardian-Observer to remove six articles from its website
New Ideas? No thanks
- 04 June 2008
- 2 comments
A thoughtful discussion of liberalism and Labour provokes charges of treachery
UK Politics
The Flimsiness of the 42 Days Argument Exposed
- 04 June 2008
- 1 comment
Simon Jenkins gets it right
UK Politics
Major is not the model
- 23 May 2008
- 4 comments
The Labour Party is in serious trouble if it is looking to John Major for comfort in the wake of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election
UK Politics
Wanted: new-thinking pioneers
- 22 May 2008
- 31 comments
The intellectuals whose thinking underpinned Labour's return to office in 1997 have moved on. Where will the new ideas come from


