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
Participatory Democracy: The Way Forward
- 06 August 2008
- 2 comments
An article on a new book on Democracy sparked some real discussion and debate
UK Politics
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
UK Politics
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
Human Rights
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
Law & Reform
Libel Tourism Revisited
- 22 July 2008
- 16 comments
An alternative remedy to the libel courts suggested by lawyer to the stars Anthony Julius
Human Rights
Karadzic and Srebrenica
- 22 July 2008
- 178 comments
Teach British school children the lessons of the July 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in a UN "safe haven".
Economy
Obama, Brown and the Commentators
- 21 July 2008
- 9 comments
A brief round-up of the Sunday commentariat
Religion
Hazel Blears and IslamExpo
- 18 July 2008
- 52 comments
Hazel Blears explains her opposition to IslamExpo and the politics of the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas
