Yet again Tories shown to be failing on crime as more frontline cuts are revealed
As the papers fill up with pre-Budget speculation (most of which will be wrong) and as the Lib Dems wriggle around over health, and Nick Clegg and Vince Cable fight proxy battles over mansion taxes an... Continue11 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
I don’t criticise Cameron for his handling of failed hostage rescue mission
I just did a short interview on Five Live on the fall-out (literally in the case of relations between Britain and Italy) from the failed attempt to rescue two hostages in Nigeria. I was preceded by an... Continue9 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
8 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Is Nick Clegg already playing Prescott to Dave and George’s TB-GB?
I got in last night to catch sight of Nick Clegg talking about child benefit on the news. Now I didn't see the start of the report, but if I read the words and body language right, I thought that rath... Continue6 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Bit of a whiff developing around the Gove email saga
Michael Gove looked like a naughty boy caught with his hand in the sweet jar when Ed Miliband quizzed the Prime Minister about the Schools Secretary's ill-judged running commentary on the Leveson Inqu... Continue3 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Welcome to Black Dog Tribe, a welcome addition to the mental health campaign field
Short and sweet today. Just to say welcome to Black Dog Tribe, a new website started by Ruby Wax, one of my fellow Time to Change Ambassadors. Ruby asked me to answer a few readers' questions, which y... Continue2 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
I look forward to Gove’s next contribution on (or perhaps to) Leveson
Even after all that emerged at Leveson yesterday, the Tory strategy to undermine the Inquiry continues. Boris Johnson, journalist and Mayor, talked about the need for 'the caravan to move on'. Not ... Continue28 February 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron needs to take on the flat-earthers and win the argument for wind power
Back in the days when people seemed to accept at face value David Cameron's commitment to the environment, today's revelations that billions of pounds worth of investment in wind farms is on hold woul... Continue27 February 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The component parts of the Sunday Express mental health campaign launch
Here are the component parts of the Sunday Express mental health campaign I mentioned yesterday. The paper's draft charter on the issue here, Nick Clegg's backing for the campaign here, editor Martin ... Continue26 February 2012
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.