Martin Bright 
Israel is losing the battle in Britain
The simplest way to react to the madder pronouncements of the trade union movement is to dismiss it as so much infantile ‘group think’. Solidarity can be very selective and… Continue reading
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Face it: Ed Miliband could be the next prime minister
It’s fun isn’t it, all this speculation about a leadership challenge to David Cameron? It was obvious really in the run-up to party conference season. We all needed a new… Continue reading
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David Cameron’s oddballs
I’m coming to the conclusion that the character of the Cameron government is the inversion of the Brown government. During the dying days of New Labour there was a snarling,… Continue reading
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Why did Pete Townshend play the finale to the Olympics?
I returned from holiday to discover that the silly season has turned into something much more serious. The daily list of horrors from Syria, the Eurozone crisis and the terrifying… Continue reading
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Downing Street humbled by Mo Farah
The genius of Mo Farah was only underscored by the plodding stupidity of Downing Street’s statements about the “All Must Have Prizes” culture this weekend. If this is the culture… Continue reading
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Are you thinking what Aidan Burley was thinking?
When you are not a part of the Tory tribe there are certain subjects you worry about mentioning as journalist, whether it’s at a Conservative Party conference, or indeed, on… Continue reading
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The unusual case of Matt Nixson, the hack with the big heart
This is not a great time to be a tabloid journalist. It is an even worse time to be an out-of-work tabloid journalist. Few tears are shed when red-top hacks… Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism: no longer big news
My fellow Spectator blogger Douglas Murray wrote a powerful post yesterday. Like him, I was disturbed by the way the Bulgarian bus-bombing and the Manchester terror trial were treated in… Continue reading
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Why I’m backing my local free school
Last night I attended a public meeting to discuss the successful bid by parents in north London to set up a free school in East Finchley. The Archer Academy is… Continue reading
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First, call the lawyers
I have just started a new column, Bright on Politics, for the Jewish Chronicle. My first piece last week discussed Ed Balls and Israel. And this week I discussed why… Continue reading
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Tennis and the rise of the ‘mediocracy’
The discussion of Britain’s latest tennis nearly man has turned inevitably to the culture of a sport which, in this country at least, remains laughably exclusive. Asked on the Today… Continue reading
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Let’s get to work getting our veterans back to work
The cutting of 17 army units by 2020 was never going to be popular. It is over-dramatic to suggest we now have a self-defence force rather than an army, but… Continue reading
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Is Michael Gove the government’s only true radical?
I have been waiting more than two years for this government to say or do something really radical. By this I don’t mean taking the Blairite revolution to its logical… Continue reading
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Why this government is not down with the kids
Hardly a day goes by without more bad news on youth unemployment. The latest figures on NEETs (a horrible de-humanising term for school leavers who are not in education, employment… Continue reading
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Meet Professor Bright
I have not often been called a ‘renowned political commentator’ (for readers of this blog it tends to be ‘hopeless naive leftie’ and elsewhere it’s ‘notorious Zionist neo-con’) so I… Continue reading
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Who funds think tanks?
I was very interested to see the launch of the Who Funds You? website today. This is an intriguing new initiative to examine the transparency of think tanks. The tendency… Continue reading
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Will journalists soon have to pay for the privilege?
I had the strangest call today from an outfit called publicservice.co.uk. A rather pleasant woman, albeit with a slightly insistent phone manner, asked me for my views on work creation… Continue reading
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Have Israel and Britain given up on each other?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement to authorise more than 800 new housing units in West Bank settlements, and the condemnation which followed from British Foreign Secretary William Hague, has marked a new… Continue reading
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The Jubilee stewards scandal reveals the flaws of the Work Programme
It all seemed innocent enough. I even found myself in the rain at Somerset House watching the river pageant (for the kids, you understand). The street party in my road… Continue reading
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The Lobby’s existential search for meaning
There was a small but important piece in the Independent this week by my former boss John Kampfner. He’s not my boss any more, so I don’t have to be… Continue reading
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