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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.

Articles by martin bright

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On enemy territory

  • 06 March 2008
  • 89 comments

His desire to outflank the Tories on the right has distorted Gordon Brown's thinking

Class war in the House

  • 28 February 2008
  • 25 comments

The Michael Martin affair has exposed a raw tribalism that still separates the two major parties

Coming soon: poll of political insiders

  • 28 February 2008
  • 35 comments

A new website, PoliticsHomeIndex, will allow access daily polling of 100 movers and shakers in the political ferment

Divide for Ken

  • 26 February 2008
  • 105 comments

An online petition to support the Mayor of London suggests he's in more trouble than I thought

The truth is more tawdry than the lies

  • 21 February 2008
  • 8 comments

The so-called "Williams draft" of the notorious Iraq weapons dossier confirms at last that government spin was at the heart of the process

What about the workers?

  • 14 February 2008
  • 9 comments

An unglamorous bill presented shortly to parliament will define the direction of the Brown government - and its approach to social justice.

Taking the Michael

  • 07 February 2008
  • 12 comments

As the links between money and politics come under ever closer scrutiny, why is David Cameron so coy about the position of Tory deputy chairman and generous donor Michael Ashcroft?

No one is born to rule

  • 24 January 2008
  • 61 comments

To call Ken Livingstone to account is not to attack Labour, or support the Conservatives - quite the opposite

My questions for Ken

  • 17 January 2008
  • 119 comments

London's mayor must be open to legitimate scrutiny writes NS political editor Martin Bright who has been conducting an investigation for Dispatches

Reasons to be cheerful (Part two)

  • 10 January 2008
  • 6 comments

There may be more to Gordon Brown's New Year relaunch than meets the eye. Martin Bright, NS political editor, identifies the changes taking place on the Prime Minister's watch

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