Alastair Campbell’s diary: How to spot the charlatans
Moisés Naím’s new book unpacks how these snake-oil shysters deceive the public... Continue
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Message machine Mandelson on form today
Say what you like about Peter Mandelson - some of you will doubtless take up the invitation - but he knows how to pack a few messages into a newspaper interview. I particularly like the way, in his ... Continue27 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Forgive me if I have only one thing on my mind today - no not that, nor even plugging Maya (out soon by the way and may I say the man from the Mirror, who gave my first novel a great write up, says he...
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26 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron and tweeting ought to be natural fit
So if he did tweet, how might David Cameron have summed up his press conference this morning? 'nice easy questioning, avoided getting pinned down on tax rises/public spending, backtracked quite well ... Continue25 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Big bucks campaigning not what it’s cracked out to be
There was a moment during Barack Obama's multi-squillion-dollar presidential campaign when his team realised they had so much money in the war chest that they bought a mass of advertising they probabl... Continue24 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A life in unemployment statistics
I was sent this link yesterday to a handy little map the Labour Party has created to show relative levels of unemployment in 1992 ie the last comparable recession and now. Pretty much everywhere... Continue22 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Learning the wrong Iraq lessons for Afghan war
This is the full version of an article of which an edited version appears in today's Financial Times Britain is at war. It does not feel like it for a population which, the young included, has its ... Continue21 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Denis MacShane MP on the rewriting of history re Iraq war
I have been thinking for a while about writing something on the way so many people in politics, diplomacy and the media are rewriting history to suit their own agenda or to evade their own responsibi... Continue20 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Darling v Gove, Osborne and help the rich squad is No Contest
After shadow education secretary Michael Gove's barely comprehensible (especially after he 'explained' it) 'toffs for teachers' elitist schooling plan, the Tories have now turned their attention to ch... Continue19 January 2010
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.