Guest blog from a poor soul working for Mailonline

One of the reasons I know the Mail is a horrible paper, and a horrible place to work, with horrible values, is because people who work there tell me. I keep urging them to leave, to understand that pu... Continue

18 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cambridge Lecture 2: Optimistic despite press lies re Leveson, new social media oligarchs, Snowden/Wikileaks (and why Merkel is best)

Lecture 2 in my series of events as Humanitas Visiting Professor at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, delivered today. A few years ago, Carl Ber... Continue

14 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cambridge Lecture 1: New generation of people and technology signalling end of Murdoch-Dacre generation

Professor Campbell here, with the first of the two lectures I am making this week in my debut performance as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media (cue Dacre Vagina Monologue) at Cambridge University.... Continue

13 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

My views, as a Cambridge professor no less, on politics and the press; not as clear or straight-forward as I expected

Never did I imagine, as I drank, fought and very occasionally studied my way through four years as a Cambridge University student, that one day I would be a 'visiting professor' no less. Also, given t... Continue

12 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

My night in a ‘brothel’, and a warning for my friends at Twitter

Out last night to one of the most extraordinary venues I have ever spoken at. A club in Soho which - not that I have ever knowingly been in a Paris brothel - felt like, well, a Paris brothel. It was... Continue

8 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

A chance to have a great laugh with Jo Brand AND stop people dying

If you like Jo Brand, if you like a good night out, if you have an empty diary on the evening of Sunday November 24, and if you have a passing interest in making a small contribution to curing cancer ... Continue

31 October 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Northern Ireland showed TB at his best

If you read The Guardian, you may already have seen the piece I am posting below. It is an extract from the introduction Tony Blair has written for the book I am publishing next week, The Irish Diarie... Continue

25 October 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Another day, another TV programme showing the dreadful damage alcohol does to Britain

Make sure you watch Channel 4 at 9pm tonight, and see how the wonderful people who work for our ambulance services are drowning in a sea of alcohol. Like Tommy Lemon, who lays to rest the myth that '... Continue

14 October 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

On women and booze, and why more and more women are getting more and more worried

When I made a documentary on alcoholism for the BBC a couple of years ago, one of the first people to get in touch was Lucy Rocca who, together with a friend, had set up an online self-help group for ... Continue

13 October 2013

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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