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490. Trump’s Greenland Ultimatum: What Next?

Is the US now an adversary for Europe? Has Europe's appeasement strategy failed? How should NATO respond if appeasement is no longer an option? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questio... Continue

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

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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

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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

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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

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

On this, Matt Hancock, you really must apologise. Do it today

Before I turn to the latest, rather large batch of Tory MPs’ letters sent to me in response to my twitter campaign to find out how they are dealing with their constituents’ complaints about Domin... Continue

31 May 2020

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

the good, the bad, the bullshit – how tory mps are dealing with complaints about cummings

Well, I asked for that … if you urge people to send letters to MPs, and keep me in touch with their replies, I shouldn’t be surprised then to get bombarded. So this post has been edited down from... Continue

30 May 2020

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

i take no lectures on anything from a tory minister: help for heroes is a different matter

This morning, I posted a series of satirical musical videos about the Johnson/Cummings scandal. In one, I wore a Guards tie and military medals, and impersonated (not as well as Matt Lucas) Boris Joh... Continue

28 May 2020

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Why it took cummings’ rule breach to expose the full horror of the national catastrophe for which johnson and the most useless cabinet in history are responsible

‘Blind Ali’ – it sounds like me on my driving test after completing my course of lessons with the Barnard Castle School of Driving. In fact it is the twitter handle of someone called Ali Samson... Continue

27 May 2020

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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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