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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Participatory Democracy: The Way Forward

  • 06 August 2008
  • 2 comments

An article on a new book on Democracy sparked some real discussion and debate

Trots Get the Boot from City Hall

  • 05 August 2008
  • 97 comments

Ken Livingstone's Socialist Action cronies have finally left City Hall, but not without fat cat pay-offs

Apocalypse Now

  • 25 July 2008
  • 31 comments

Few predicted the result of the Glasgow East by-election and the consequences will reverberate for some time

When Marx met Mill

  • 24 July 2008
  • 18 comments

People just don't want to be told. Personal political responsibility, like virtue, is notoriously difficult to teach

Karadzic: the Weight of History

  • 24 July 2008
  • 50 comments

The commentary about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic has reminded us of the devastating significance of the Bosnian conflict

Libel Tourism Revisited

  • 22 July 2008
  • 16 comments

An alternative remedy to the libel courts suggested by lawyer to the stars Anthony Julius

Karadzic and Srebrenica

  • 22 July 2008
  • 176 comments

Teach British school children the lessons of the July 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in a UN "safe haven".

Obama, Brown and the Commentators

  • 21 July 2008
  • 9 comments

A brief round-up of the Sunday commentariat

A Big Beast Speaks

  • 18 July 2008
  • 24 comments

Paul Routledge's catacylsmic shift in allegiance

Hazel Blears and IslamExpo

  • 18 July 2008
  • 52 comments

Hazel Blears explains her opposition to IslamExpo and the politics of the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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