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Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe

Below is the text of a speech I am making this evening to the Labour Movement for Europe, urging a change in approach by Labour, to be bolder in the terms of the "reset" that is promised, clearer in ... Continue

Why we should be upgrading not downgrading language teaching in schools across the UK

So yesterday was a big day for me … my first speech in German since my Goethe Institute courses in lockdown to brush up a language I had slowly lost since student days. It was last night, at the Ge... Continue

9 November 2024

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Lessons from the rise and fall, and most importantly the healing, of Bradley Wiggins. Great cyclist. Great guy. Who just made me shed a tear …

As the Olympic Games come to a spectacular end, and I look back on two wonderful weeks of sport, during which Paris seemed to have taken the same happiness pill London that swallowed three Olympiads ... Continue

13 August 2024

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

These bloody opinion polls are now the biggest threat to a decent Labour majority that allows them to get stuff done

I am beginning to think that the Grant Shapps' invention of a Labour 'supermajority' was not as daft as I thought at the time. Daft, I thought then, because he was effectively throwing in the towel o... Continue

21 June 2024

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Political education, political education, political education … time to get serious

Pretty much anyone with a passing interest in politics, including people who weren't around at the time, are aware of Tony Blair's "Education, Education, Education" mantra. It was designed to indicat... Continue

6 June 2024

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Sunak looks like he is toast, but too many don’t knows for Labour to get complacent

A new development for The Rest Is Politics podcast this week: we have tied up with JL Partners, a polling company Rory Stewart first got to know well when running for London Mayor, and who also did t... Continue

10 April 2024

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

A tale of two spy chiefs, and their views on past, present and future

If the four people in the picture above was a pop group, they might be called The Podspooks, or the Polispooks ... on either flank me and my podcast co-host Rory Stewart, in the middle former MI5 dir... Continue

31 March 2024

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Posted by Alastair Campbell

Into the Lions’ Den of private education … to a friendlier reception than I expected

I very rarely get nervous before speaking in public, but confess to feeling a little more anxious than usual this morning, ahead of a speech to the Independent Schools' Bursars Association. Three hun... Continue

8 February 2024

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Some children from Richard Albion Primary School with Alastair Campbell

Politics – far too important to be left to the grown-ups!

Thank you to the pupils of Richard Alibon Primary School, which I left in rather better mood than I arrived this morning. In no particular order ... Trump ... The war in Ukraine ... Israel/Gaza ..... Continue

5 February 2024

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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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