If she’d stuck at the rat bit, Harriet would have been fine
As I got very wet cycling round and round the Emirates Stadium this morning, I was pondering whether a man could have got away with calling Danny Alexander a 'ginger rodent.' Maybe - that was the con... Continue31 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Blown away by Chester; and a great new Welsh mental health scheme
I only agreed to do the Chester Literature Festival because it was on a Friday night and I reckoned there would be a good chance Burnley would be at home on the Saturday. A calculated guess rather ban... Continue30 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Deep disillusion in deepest Cleggland; will he defect?
To deepest Cleggland last night, and if Mark Mardell thinks Barack Obama has disillusion problems, he should get himself to Sheffield for some of the real thing. I was speaking at the University Stud... Continue29 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
If Boris Johnson’s Kosovo analogy was planned, then Cameron has a problem
You can never quite tell with Boris Johnson whether what comes out of his mouth is planned or wholly accidental. That he has some concerns about the coalition government's planned changes to housing ... Continue28 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Great to see Clinton back on the campaign trail taking on the radical right
John Sawers, once TB's foreign policy advisor, now head of MI6, used to take the mick out of what he called my 'love-in' with Bill Clinton. That rather overstates it, but fair to say I had and have a... Continue27 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Good to hear Bank Governor whacking banks; now let’s hear it from DC and Osborne
In the dying moments of the Labour government, namely those heady days between the election and Gordon Brown's departure from Downing Street, Bank of England governor Mervyn King was perhaps a bigger... Continue26 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
All in this together; but some more deeply than others
I don't know how many of you read Monday's FTfm (a weekly review of the fund management industry published as a pull-out with the Financial Times). Today's version has a peculiarly arresting intro t... Continue25 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Seven years late, Greg Dyke says BBC should have had inquiry into Dr Kelly story
Seven years after the suicide of Dr David Kelly, former BBC Director General Greg Dyke suggests it might have been better if the BBC had held its own inquiry into Andrew Gilligan's false report whic... Continue24 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Labour can demolish coalition claims in same way as IFS has done
In this cynical, media age, it is not easy for an organisation to establish a strong reputation for taking complicated facts and delivering sound and sober judgements upon them, but you'd have to say... Continue22 October 2010
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.