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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.

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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

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

The Flimsiness of the 42 Days Argument Exposed

  • 04 June 2008
  • 1 comment

Simon Jenkins gets it right

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

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

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