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If you haven’t booked a holiday yet, you should try Albania. Promise

I would normally wait a few days before posting a New European column, but an editing malfunction means those who have got the print version - which despite this malfunction I strongly recommend ... Continue

What Trump, Brexit and the rise of populism say about politics and media now and in the future

Yesterday I made a speech to a conference organised by Fremantle Media, the independent production company that has given us such delights – depending on your taste – as Pop Idol, The Price is Rig... Continue

8 December 2016

Posted by Alastair Campbell

A national catastrophe, and a vacuum in leadership. This is what Britain voted for

So where to start with the national catastrophe, which has reduced us to an international joke, that has been unleashed? Let's start with the thing people are crying out for right now - leadership. ... Continue

28 June 2016

Posted by Alastair Campbell

It is not unPC to worry that ISIS and Putin are more strategic than our leaders engaged in battle with them

  Last week I was in Germany, speaking to a business team whose leader had read WINNERS and wanted me to talk about it to his colleagues, with a particular focus on OST. As those who have read... Continue

25 March 2016

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Five thousand words or so on how today’s challenges for leaders are tougher than 1997, and lots of other stuff. Happy Christmas

I’ve not done a big blog for a while, so as I penned this speech for a conference in France today, and I saw it was getting close to the 5,000 word mark, I thought ‘why not? Get it up there.’ T... Continue

20 December 2015

Posted by Alastair Campbell

‘European history will see this as the age of Merkel’

Angela Merkel having - rightly in my view - been named Time Magazine 'Person of the Year', I thought I would post the mini-profile of the German Chancellor I wrote in WINNERS AND HOW THEY SUCCEED.... Continue

11 December 2015

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Good luck to the pro-UK-in-EU campaign. Even having this damned referendum is bad for Britain

So the pro-Britain in Europe campaign moves into a different phase today, with M and S former boss Stuart Rose fronting up a collection of business people and politicians who have the considerable tas... Continue

12 October 2015

Posted by Alastair Campbell

VW could become a far bigger crisis for Merkel than Pig-Gate or Coke-Gate are for Cameron

I am not really a car person but I drive a Volkswagen. It is a strong brand. It says reliable. It says German. Which emphasises reliable. And, translated, it means People's Car, which is kind of nice.... Continue

23 September 2015

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Merkel unique and her campaign uniquely German, but still lessons in there

Below is a short piece I did for Der Spiegel on the German election campaign, first in English and then, a part translated (not by me) German version. I do so wish I had not lost my German. Used to be... Continue

25 September 2013

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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