Budgets, Balls, billionaires and Susan Boyle
It is the normal fate of Chancellors, on the Sunday before a Budget, to see the newspapers plastered with predictions of its contents. Today, you have to work well into the inside pages before findin... Continue19 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
18 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Bring back standing at football
Several days late, in the eyes of some, to the issue of football stadia. Late, that is, if it is indeed the case that the twentieth anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy was the subject I should h... Continue17 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
When Facebook friends fall out
So I put up a blog on global warming yesterday, headed off for a three hour bike ride, and came back to outbreaks of incivilities all over my Facebook page. As one commenter, Terry Evans, put it, ... Continue16 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Guardian sightings and the email and bath plug agenda
It says something about the kind of (left of centre) visitors we have up here in Scotland that on successive days we have had sightings of The Guardian. Sighting one, on Monday, had a short extract... Continue15 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
14 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
13 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The real lessons from Damian McBride
These days I tend to find out news as much through interview bids as through listening to the radio or reading the papers. Sky or Radio Five Live are usually first, by email, with a phone call ten min... Continue12 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Will English always be the dominant language?
In a Paris cab last week, an Algerian driver picked up on something I said and told me the French word 'hasard' (chance) came directly from Arabic. He had seen me on a TV programme the night before an... Continue11 April 2009
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.