Too late for Libs and Greens to lament Charles Clarke demise
So there I was, tapping away at the computer, and it just went dead. Kaput. Bye-bye. In our household, I know not how to deal with these things, but Fiona does and she has now got someone in who is so... Continue6 November 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The joins of the dark arts are showing in coalition leak
I don't know if Malcolm Tucker is to be killed off now that the coalition has replaced Labour, or if a new coalition version may replace him, but if the latter is the case, he/she and its scriptwriter... Continue2 November 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A lazy Monday blog for a ‘can’t be arsed’ Monday
The great thing about writing a blog, as opposed to a newspaper column, or an editorial, is that when you can't be arsed, you don't have to. One of the many bad things about our papers is that there ... Continue1 November 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
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
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.