Buy The Blair Years and raise cash for Labour
In addition to publishing my new novel, Maya, this week, I am today launching a scheme to raise money for Labour's campaign to keep out the Tories by selling individually signed copies of The Blair Ye... Continue1 February 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A lesson in campaign mindset from young Labour students
I stayed up in Burnley after our latest heroic defeat last night to do a fundraiser for the town's new Labour candidate Julie Cooper. It was the perfect venue for a speaking event - looking out over ... Continue31 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Media tweets show the real agenda
By Peter Kyle, Progress Online I was at university on the 11 September 2001, in an open plan office with other postgraduate students. It's not a day I or anyone else will forget. So many people said ... Continue29 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
TB made a judgement, and is defending it well
I watched most of this morning's TB session on the Iraq inquiry website. I don't know who put the site together but I wished we'd had more of them around when I was doing government communications. It... Continue29 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
On inequality, special advisers, Ireland, and TB/Iraq
Three observations. 1. Yesterday's report suggesting some failings in the government's record on inequality attracted widespread broadcast and print media coverage. Today, so far as I can tell from a... Continue28 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Message machine Mandelson on form today
Say what you like about Peter Mandelson - some of you will doubtless take up the invitation - but he knows how to pack a few messages into a newspaper interview. I particularly like the way, in his ... Continue27 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
26 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron and tweeting ought to be natural fit
So if he did tweet, how might David Cameron have summed up his press conference this morning? 'nice easy questioning, avoided getting pinned down on tax rises/public spending, backtracked quite well ... Continue25 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Big bucks campaigning not what it’s cracked out to be
There was a moment during Barack Obama's multi-squillion-dollar presidential campaign when his team realised they had so much money in the war chest that they bought a mass of advertising they probabl... Continue24 January 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.