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518. Is Trump a Fascist and is His War on Iran Unwinnable?

Has Trump crossed the line from right-wing populist to fascist? Is he fighting a war with Iran he cannot win? Is Iraq being dragged in against its will? Join Dominic Sandbrook and Alastair Campbell a... Continue

Bit of a whiff developing around the Gove email saga

Michael Gove looked like a naughty boy caught with his hand in the sweet jar when Ed Miliband quizzed the Prime Minister about the Schools Secretary's ill-judged running commentary on the Leveson Inqu... Continue

3 March 2012

Welcome to Black Dog Tribe, a welcome addition to the mental health campaign field

Short and sweet today. Just to say welcome to Black Dog Tribe, a new website started by Ruby Wax, one of my fellow Time to Change Ambassadors. Ruby asked me to answer a few readers' questions, which y... Continue

2 March 2012

I look forward to Gove’s next contribution on (or perhaps to) Leveson

Even after all that emerged at Leveson  yesterday, the Tory strategy to undermine the Inquiry continues. Boris Johnson, journalist and Mayor, talked about the need for 'the caravan to move on'. Not ... Continue

28 February 2012

Cameron needs to take on the flat-earthers and win the argument for wind power

Back in the days when people seemed to accept at face value David Cameron's commitment to the environment, today's revelations that billions of pounds worth of investment in wind farms is on hold woul... Continue

27 February 2012

The component parts of the Sunday Express mental health campaign launch

Here are the component parts of the Sunday Express mental health campaign I mentioned yesterday. The paper's draft charter on the issue here, Nick Clegg's backing for the campaign here, editor Martin ... Continue

26 February 2012

Forget the Sun on Sunday ballyhoo/arrogance … get The Sunday Express tomorrow

Forget the overblown, well-funded hype surrounding the Sun on Sunday, and the arrogance of Murdoch and Co sticking up two fingers to a judicial inquiry and police investigations into his papers ... if... Continue

25 February 2012

Gove has a surefire recipe for educational disaster – guest blog from a headteacher trying to stave off disaster

Please welcome with a guest blog Mr Jeremy Rowe, headteacher of Sir John Leman High School in Beccles, Suffolk, who is seeing very close up the effect of Michael Gove's potty ideology, and is therefor... Continue

23 February 2012

Far from being a ‘rogue’ minister, Gove is part of Cameron strategy to undermine Leveson

A very rare sighting today - a Daily Mirror editorial in support of a Tory Minister. What could be the issue that gets my old paper supporting Michael Gove? The answer is the press, and his remarkabl... Continue

22 February 2012

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.