Dream School has convinced me we need more not less politics teaching in schools
As I know from living with a virtually full-time State schools campaigner, education arouses enormous passions and very strong views. So it shouldn't really come as a surprise that Jamie Oliver's Drea... Continue8 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
As Cameron slithers from tactic to tactic, Mandelson and Straw right to defend difficult positions
I may not have liked much about Peter Mandelson's book ("'insufferably self-indulgent' - Alastair Campbell" doesn't seem to have made it to the quotes on the cover of the paperback). However, I totall... Continue7 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Everyone has a favourite teacher – here’s mine
Here is the piece from the Times Educational Supplement I mentioned yesterday, in which I was interviewed about my favourite, or most inspiring teacher at school. As I said in yesterday's blog, one of... Continue6 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Big Society blah. Enemies of enterprise blahdiblah. This is Cones Hotline stuff
According to the pre-speech spin (I thought that was all in the past), David Cameron is going to declare war on 'the enemies of enterprise' today, and he is going to tell us that these include governm... Continue6 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
An English lesson for Jamie Oliver; a lesson for us all that teaching is hard
I finally caught up with the first episode of Jamie's Dream School last night. May I begin by ticking off Mr Oliver for using 'less' when he meant 'fewer.' Tut, tut, as fellow teacher David Starkey mi... Continue5 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Well done Dan Jarvis, and my latest litttle battle against the evil of the Mail
I've been away having laptop connection problems so apart from a couple of tweets I have not been able to congratulate Labour's Dan Jarvis on his excellent by-election win. And yes, of course I knew L... Continue4 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
At home and abroad, Cameron sets up policies which cannibalise each other
It has been mildly comical to hear David Cameron for so long bemoaning the centralising, strategising ways of the Blair government, and now seeking to emulate the systems he decried. As his new Number... Continue2 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Lessons in life from Ryan Giggs’ longevity and the relatively short list of team-mates
Come on, be fair, it is ages since I did a blog on football. There is only so much I can say about David Cameron's muddled foreign policy, his failure to explain the Big Society, or the ideological dr... Continue1 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
28 February 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.