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156. Defence Secretary, John Healey: Is Britain Ready For War?

What tactic did Donald Trump steal from Gordon Brown? What can we learn from when Labour beat UKIP in the 2012 Rotherham by-election when it comes to taking on Farage? As a New Labour alumnus... Continue

Well done BBC in Mental Health Media awards. Looking forward to Inside Sport on depression tonight

I am out tonight recording the voiceover for a new official Burnley FC DVD - stay with me, stay with me, this is not another Burnley blog, I promise. I'm just hoping I get back in time for Inside Spo... Continue

25 November 2009

BBC main bulletin blackout on leaders’ speeches bizarre

The economy is always fundamental to any election, and the debates upon it therefore central to the choice faced by voters. So yesterday, with all three main party leaders speaking to the CBI, was a ... Continue

24 November 2009

Business right to be worried about Tory axe on RDAs

If a clutch of business groups had attacked an important Labour policy when we were in Opposition, I think you would have heard of it. Front page news, ramped across the TV channels, you'd have heard ... Continue

23 November 2009

Why should Brown and Cameron apologise for being seen to pay tribute to the war dead?

Having taken a potshot at David Cameron for hiring a personal photographer, I suppose I ought to be pleased that this has landed him in a spot of bother. But I'm afraid I cannot get wound up over the... Continue

22 November 2009

Beware climate change denial dressed up as ‘commonsense’

If you need any reminder of the challenge facing Ed Miliband as he works for a deal at the Copenhagen climate change summit, look no further than today's interview in the Financial Times with the elec... Continue

21 November 2009

Something for the weekend – a long lazy blog lifted from interviews

This must be one of the longest, and certainly the laziest, blog I have ever done. Just a bit busy you see. I was doing a speech to sports governing bodies in The Midlands yesterday, so took the opp... Continue

20 November 2009

If France and FIFA won’t act on Thierry Henry, let’s have a boycott of Gillette razors

Central London was heaving last night with happy, cheering, chanting, singing, flag-waving Algerians celebrating the win over Egypt that took them to the World Cup next year. There is nothing quite... Continue

19 November 2009

Never in the history of human taxation has so much been promised from so many to so few

So GB has suggested that the Tories' inheritance tax pledge is the first tax cut in history where those proposing it will personally know those who stand to gain. I think this should be put to the t... Continue

18 November 2009

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.