Her divisiveness is far from being the only reason Thatcher should not get a State funeral

That the idea of a State funeral for Margaret Thatcher is even on the agenda says something for the extent to which the Right wing in Britain still sings the best tunes the loudest across our politics... Continue

22 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Help fight the online dominance of the Right

I know times are hard for a lot of people, and Christmas makes them harder than ever on the financial front, so I hope you don't mind me using this pre-Christmas blog to ask regular visitors to chip i... Continue

21 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cameron does God – vaguely

Nobody can accuse David Cameron of idleness. Fresh from telling the whole of Europe how to do its job, now he turns his attention to God. And in between times he has been sorting out the High Street w... Continue

17 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Maybe you needed to be there, but I can’t quite see why Cameron got such rave TV reviews for his brothers crack

Perhaps you needed to be there. But based on the clips I saw on the news, I cannot quite see why the broadcasters seemed to decide  as one that Ed Miliband had a disastrous PMQs yesterday. The papers... Continue

15 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Clegg vacates his chair in protest at Cameron vacating his chair – pathetic

So Nick Clegg didn't show up in the Commons today, because he didn't want to be a distraction. A distraction from what? A distraction from the fact that he is the most pro-European leader in UK polit... Continue

12 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

When Bill Cash and Nigel Farage are trending on twitter, something is going very wrong in our land

I don't know which papers Lord Leveson reads, but assuming he flicks through them all as he presides over his inquiry into the press, he will be getting a very good example of the fusion of news and c... Continue

11 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Veto could make or break Cameron. fact it came from tactics not strategy means break more likely

With thanks to my favourite Elvis impersonator, Mark Wright aka@kingswimg72, I bring you his excellent tweet in response to mine asking the question 'how many of our most important decisions do we mak... Continue

9 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Europe’s leaders need to be honest about what they really think, and what they really can and cannot do

Another day, another summit, another round of ups and downs, then stand by for another set of bold declarations that Europe's leaders have found the solutions to the current crisis ... again. With eve... Continue

8 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Merkel, Sarko and Cameron will need all their communications skills to win the new arguments in Europe

I'm off to Dunkirk today for a conference of French communications professionals, Cap' Com, asking themselves whether the public still believe 'la communication publique.' The answer is that sometime... Continue

6 December 2011

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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