On the perils of shorthand and/or mumbling and/or not fully explaining
I don't know for sure that Euan Ferguson of the Observer does teeline (the form of shorthand in which I was once, many years ago, 120 words a minute proficient). But I think he might. Either that or I... Continue13 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Is it such a bad thing that London is PR capital of the world?
Phil Stephens had a very measured column in the FT last week about the fact that UK PR companies always seemed to be on hand to help less democratic countries than ours with a bit of image advice. I h... Continue12 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
11 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Support the Demoratic Life campaign to keep citizenship on the curriculum
The hints that the Government is thinking about removing citizenship from the curriculum are becoming a little louder. It would be yet another mistake by Michael Gove, at a time the government is de... Continue10 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Hannah and George the latest young people to make a big impression
Hannah and George are two young disabled people who helped co-present the latest podcast for the BBC disability programme, Ouch. Having been locked away in a Bloomberg's meeting room, sitting on a pan... Continue9 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
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
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.