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549. Mamdani’s Wrecking Ball and the Rise of Anti-Migrant Vigilantes

Is Zohran Mamdani becoming much more than a mayor and effectively running a shadow presidential campaign through the candidates he's backing? How significant is Australia’s new centrist party and co... Continue

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

5: Lockdown #5 The Durham Dom Special

We're back with an episode mainly talking about the Dominic Cummings saga which unravelled this weekend. Plus some football, and a bit of feminism.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in... Continue

27 May 2020

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

I know i was not alone in feeling sickened, and ashamed to be british, as cummings’ nodding dog spoke up for him

En route to the Serpentine with Fiona for a swim this morning, I was stopped in Hyde Park by someone who introduced himself as a civil servant. He worked for one of those ministers who had yesterday ... Continue

24 May 2020

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

4: The Lockdown #4

#mentalhealthawarenessweek Alastair and Grace are back for another week. They discuss mental health, what life was like for Grace when they had protestors outside her house growing up, swimming and MO... Continue

22 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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