Marr right that TB book like no other prime ministerial memoir
Fair play to Andrew Marr for giving a more rounded view of Tony Blair's book than will come over from the screaming headlines. What is coming through from the small number of people who have actually ... Continue1 September 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Hatred of TB re his book is a form of media madness
Every British Prime Minister I can think of has written his or (in one case only) her memoirs. None have provoked quite the pre-publication antagonism generated in advance of Tony Blair's autobiograph... Continue31 August 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
All power to JP’s NHS Direct campaign
John Prescott phoned up for a chat yesterday, and amid all the this, that and the other we talked about, the subject of NHS Direct came up. I made mention of the online petition that had been launche... Continue30 August 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron’s views on Labour leadership might be worth heeding
If David Cameron is anything like Tony Blair, he will be following the Labour leadership elections closely. There are many important people in the life of a Prime Minister, and in our system in partic... Continue29 August 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
State schools improving as private schools fall shock horror
I wasn't going to bother returning to the issue of school exam results, but having got under the skin of a few private-education-defenders yesterday, I have changed my mind. Internet democracy in act... Continue27 August 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
26 August 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Buy All In The Mind and raise cash for mental health campaigns
In the run-up to the election we sold several hundred signed copies of The Blair Years via the website, with half the proceeds going to the Labour Party. Now I want to do something similar with my fir... Continue27 July 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Beautiful but macabre setting for work on volume 2 of diaries
Greetings from Lake Megunticook. Those of you who read my second novel, Maya, may have heard of it. It is the place in Maine, New England, where the narrator, Steve, came to write the story of his fri... Continue24 July 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Tories blessed with pre-election lickspittling continuing post-election too
The Labour Party's media monitoring brief is, as I have mentioned before, a superb piece of work. It can sometimes be a ltttle misleading however, particularly when read overseas. As I read it this m... Continue23 July 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.