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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Human Rights
Livingstone's £20,000 Chinese Takeaway
- 15 August 2008
- 13 comments
The former mayor and his economics guru fly off on luxury Olympics junket
UK Politics
The factions square up
- 14 August 2008
- 12 comments
There is, as ever within Labour, a third way, and this one seeks a return to the party's true values under its present leader
International Politics
Brown and Miliband Left Standing
- 12 August 2008
- 24 comments
As Nicolas Sarkozy races to Tbilisi with his foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, Britain is stuck in the starting blocks
Nutsgate - The Plot Thickens
- 12 August 2008
Another prominent Tory is drawn into the controversy over donations from the backers of Nuts TV
Politics
New Statesman Ownership Battle
- 12 August 2008
- 7 comments
A diary entry from January 1976 demonstrates the prominent part the NS has always played in UK politics
UK Politics
Sunday Roundup - 10 August 2008
- 10 August 2008
- 1 comment
A weekly look at the politics stories in the Sunday newspapers
UK Politics
Why Prudence needs Justice
- 07 August 2008
- 6 comments
Labour could again become the party of justice, but not while inequality is on the increase and social mobility stalled
North America
The politics of love
- 07 August 2008
After a long hiatus, Randy Newman has produced an album of beauty and anger
My Absolute Favourite Post Ever
- 06 August 2008
- 4 comments
Red Harry is one of my regular anonymous posters. I hope you enjoy this parody of his style from Jonny Mac
UK Politics
The Other Conservative Ads
- 06 August 2008
- 2 comments
The Tories' ad campaign is well-judged - right down to the traditional dog-whistle policies they are playing down
