Missed the Budget, saw why it mattered
As Alistair Darling was delivering the Budget, this Alastair was speaking at the opening of a new MIND resource centre in Hertford. Fair to say I had the easier job. The date for the MIND event was s... Continue22 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Football good, politics bad. Allegedly
I didn't manage to the end of the opening Newsnight report on MPs' expenses before deciding that bed was a better place to be (via this quick blog), but I couldn't help but be struck by a formidable c... Continue22 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
21 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
20 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Budgets, Balls, billionaires and Susan Boyle
It is the normal fate of Chancellors, on the Sunday before a Budget, to see the newspapers plastered with predictions of its contents. Today, you have to work well into the inside pages before findin... Continue19 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
18 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Bring back standing at football
Several days late, in the eyes of some, to the issue of football stadia. Late, that is, if it is indeed the case that the twentieth anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy was the subject I should h... Continue17 April 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
When Facebook friends fall out
So I put up a blog on global warming yesterday, headed off for a three hour bike ride, and came back to outbreaks of incivilities all over my Facebook page. As one commenter, Terry Evans, put it, ... Continue16 April 2009
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.