Britain Needs a Statesman, Not a Schoolboy

Twenty years ago, I was working for a government that was busy introducing a minimum wage, developing Sure Start, creating jobs for young people through the New Deal, legislating for a Scottish Parlia... Continue

12 April 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

If the BBC think their supine stance on Brexit will save them from the hard right, they are naive in the extreme

'All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.' These words, most commonly attributed to the 18th Century Irish-born Whig Edmund Burke, may have come from someone viewed by s... Continue

6 April 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

‘The shittiest of all the shitty illnesses’ – my speech about my brother Donald to 1,800 schizophrenia experts

To Florence yesterday, to speak to the Schizophrenia International Research Society – go on, how many of you knew there was one. Well, there is, and I was very pleased to speak to them with my menta... Continue

5 April 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Labour will take its share of blame for Brexit shame

Jeremy Corbyn having sacked Owen Smith, the leader of the opposition is now closer to the government on Brexit than to a majority of Labour MPs, and a vast majority of the members he claims to listen ... Continue

28 March 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Corbyn needs real soul-searching on anti-Semitism, not just find reasons to say he has been ‘right all along’

I don't know Jeremy Corbyn well enough to know whether he goes very big on soul-searching. But he should be searching deep right now, and asking himself how, under his leadership of the Labour Party, ... Continue

27 March 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

The whiff around Cambridge Analytica is getting stronger, and getting closer to Leave campaign. Keep going Carole!

Amid the annual backslapping at the UK Press Awards last week, nobody deserved her award more than The Observer's Carole Cadwalladr, for her series of reports about the role of Cambridge Analytica and... Continue

18 March 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

We were promised ‘big speeches’ by May and her team. It took John Major to deliver one. Everyone should see it

As we await Theresa May's 'big speech' tomorrow, her contribution to the Road to Brexit 'strategy,' I throw out a question ... can anyone remember anything from those 'big speeches' made so far in thi... Continue

1 March 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

We must strive to keep Brexit an ‘if’ not a ‘when’

You sometimes get the best answers by throwing back questions to the people who asked them, and seeking the wisdom of crowds. So, Monday night, Edinburgh, and in the question and answer, a man asks m... Continue

1 March 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Thank you Boris Johnson, for reminding me of our right and our patriotic duty to resist you and your Brexit

And so, twenty months after getting their marching orders from the British people, the government has embarked on 'the road to Brexit.' If you ask Mr Google the question 'how long does it take to bui... Continue

14 February 2018

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Still active in politics and campaigns in Britain and overseas, he now splits his time between writing, speaking, broadcasting, charities and consultancy.

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