6: Lockdown #6

We took a week out last week to listen and learn and offer our platforms to the #blacklivesmatter movement. This week we're back and talking about BLM, the end of lockdown, and JK Rowling's comments a... Continue

12 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Jacinda or johnson? proper leader puts charlatan to shame

Below is the behind-a-paywall piece I wrote for the New Zealand Herald on their government's success in dealing with Covid, compared with the national catastrophe that has befallen their old colonial... Continue

11 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

PART 7, ANALYSIS Tory MP letters re cummings – rees-mogg and david davis late contenders for major BULLSHIT, CRAWLING AND BAD GRAMMAR prizes!

Just when I was thinking, thank God for that, the flood has slowed to a trickle, and I can have a day free of reading badly-written, horribly punctuated, politically tone-deaf letters from Tory MPs t... Continue

9 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Covid rants, rambles and ruminations, part 3

First, I want to thank all those people - the well-meaning ones, not the bots with lots of numbers after their social media names asking if I have gone insane - who have asked me to take care of myse... Continue

6 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Part 6, tory mps letters re cummings … the badness starts at the top, and runs deep

Just a dozen today, including a repeat offender. Well, I say repeat in that I mentioned Adam Holloway in Part 2 of this venture, when his emailed response to a Gravesham constituent asking ... Continue

6 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Part 5, Tory MP letters … grim and grisly, still they come … how many trees have fallen to print so much cut and paste bullshit?

Slowing to a steady trickle of new MP/yourref:Cummings/myref:CutAndPasteBullshit now, but still they come, and with them a lot more people starting to complain about the ones who just don’t answer ... Continue

4 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

part 4, analysis of Tory MP letters to constituents re cummings – one or two nice gems amid the total horror shows. these people are so so amateur and so so bad

Day Four, folks, of the analysis of these wretched letters from these wretched (in the main) Tory MPs. Thank you to all who have been sending them, but please keep tabs on the ones mentioned in previ... Continue

3 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Day 3, tory mps letters on cummings. my sense is media may have moved on, public have not. some vg replies, others truly awful … empathy bypass time

Here we go, round 3 of this highly revealing, deeply depressing analysis of Tory MPs, and their letters to constituents who complained about the Johnson/Cummings scandal. Depressing because it underl... Continue

1 June 2020

Posted by Alastair Campbell

a lot more good ones today, but still lots of bad and bullshit: part 2, analysis tory mps’ letters re cummings

So here goes with Part 2 of the analysis of Tory MPs’ letters to the hundreds of thousands of people who have written in protest at the hypocritical and life-threatening Johnson/Cummings lockdown b... Continue

31 May 2020

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.

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