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
A life in unemployment statistics
I was sent this link yesterday to a handy little map the Labour Party has created to show relative levels of unemployment in 1992 ie the last comparable recession and now. Pretty much everywhere... Continue22 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Learning the wrong Iraq lessons for Afghan war
This is the full version of an article of which an edited version appears in today's Financial Times Britain is at war. It does not feel like it for a population which, the young included, has its ... Continue21 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Denis MacShane MP on the rewriting of history re Iraq war
I have been thinking for a while about writing something on the way so many people in politics, diplomacy and the media are rewriting history to suit their own agenda or to evade their own responsibi... Continue20 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Darling v Gove, Osborne and help the rich squad is No Contest
After shadow education secretary Michael Gove's barely comprehensible (especially after he 'explained' it) 'toffs for teachers' elitist schooling plan, the Tories have now turned their attention to ch... Continue19 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
18 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Rebutting the good and the bad, and support from football fans
We only get The Observer on a Sunday, and I fear that Gaby Hinsliff and Nick Cohen will be going into hiding after their articles today. Sorry, but you just can't say these things!! Ms Hinsliff has w... Continue17 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Mandela is a great man, Invictus a great film
A friend of ours is a member of Bafta and so gets all the films up for awards. We have been lucky enough to see about a dozen in recent weeks, from Up In The Air (I liked it, Fiona loved it) to Funny... Continue16 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Is Paul Dacre hiding a guilty secret that explains his deranged paper?
As those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will know, on Wednesday I had a call from a behavioural psychologist, to tell me he had come to the conclusion that Obergruppenfuehrer Paul Dacre ... Continue15 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.