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482. A Trumpian Year, the Politics of Hope and Highlights of 2025

What surprised Rory and Alastair most about 2025? Why does Trump's presidency feel even more chaotic than expected? And who gets their vote for campaigner of the year? Join Rory and Alastair... Continue
Winter Walks

has nature ever been more important to mental well-being and happiness, and the future of the planet?

On Tuesday, I was on the daytime Channel 4 show, Steph's Packed lunch, and also on was a wonderful old woman called Barbara Weatherill. Ninety-six, lively smiling eyes, good mobility, a stack of mili... Continue

25 November 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Thanks paul dacre for inspiring me to rule out replacing marr, becoming pope, managing burnley or replacing the queen

I am hugely indebted to Paul Dacre, whose letter in the Times today has inspired me to pen some letters of my own. At the bottom you will find the full whingeing, whining, self-pitying, un-self-aw... Continue

20 November 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Bradford skyline in watercolour

My open letter to bradford … don’t get angry, get even … help drive these charlatans out of power

Dear Bradford, I am writing you this letter because the Daily Telegraph asked me to this morning. They sent me an interesting brief, which I publish here in full ... I will spare the author, by no... Continue

19 November 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Toxic Tories

as sleaze laps round johnson’s ankles, his brexit continues to do more and more damage

'Did Brexit work for business?' It's the title of a Channel 4 Dispatches programme, which goes out at 8.30 tonight. I shall probably watch, though I have already had the answer, from virtually every ... Continue

15 November 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

John Major yesterday. every word a truth bomb on the truly dreadful johnson

Close readers of my diaries may be aware of a woman called Alison Blackshaw, who features in most volumes. She was my PA in Downing Street, and the first time I met her, the day after the 1997 electi... Continue

7 November 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Boris Johnson

Johnson – not a joke, nor a joker, definitely not trivial. but a sado-populist threat to liberal democracy

As promised, a text of the speech I made in Hamburg last night, at a conference of German business leaders, scientists and thinkers, based around the theme of ‘the next ten years.’ I began in ... Continue

27 October 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

JAAQ.co.Uk

A game-changer for mental health – thanks to a bunch of school bullies!!

'It always seems impossible until it's done.' One of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite ever people, Nelson Mandela, the only man in whose presence the hair on my neck stood to attention ev... Continue

9 October 2021

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Bojo the Liar

alice in wonderland parliament protects a lying pm not those who call him out

This is for those who asked for a translation of the piece I have in this week's L'Express, a French news magazine, about Boris Johnson, which I posted on social media yesterday. Indeed, as the piece... Continue

3 September 2021

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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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