Politics has so much to learn from business and sport in the art of winning
It is always a nice moment when the publisher sends through the final, final version of the cover of a planned new book. It is especially nice when the designer has taken an idea given by the author -... Continue21 November 2014
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Excitement mounting amid countdown to seminal life-changing cultural event
The excitement (mine) is mounting ... Not quite to the peak of the day I trotted out in front of 72000 people at Old Trafford with Diego Maradona (I never talk about it as regulars know) and three oth... Continue27 August 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Olympics good place to take stock of primacy of strategy over tactics and reality over PR
With apologies to Gorkana, who interviewed me a while back, and to whom I said I would post the interview when they ran it, here it is a few days late. They chose to run it on the day of Danny Boyle's... Continue31 July 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Bruce Springsteen on depression and the economy – a guest blog from Elvis
I have introduced you before to my friend Mark Wright, a Labour activist and Elvis impersonator. He does however have an even bigger musical passion than The King, namely The Boss, and alerted me to a... Continue26 July 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
My first ever rebuttal of a sex scene after Fifty Shades of crap Guardian editing
Unsurprisingly, Guardian readers have been rubbishing my so-called sex scene in today's paper, where I was one of several writers asked to try to turn on women with words and so further help fuel ... Continue7 July 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Great time on The Wright Stuff, and why I am renaming my diaries Fifty Shades of Power
I must admit to being a bit grouchy with Random House publicity for getting me up for another early start in order to spend much of the morning as a panellist on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. I am not... Continue26 June 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Could POSH become to Cameron’s government the satirical tag that SPIN became to TB’s?
An edited version of this piece appears in today's Independent. I have italicised the bigger chunks not in the Indy for any of you who may have read it already, so you can skip to those bits! Also qui... Continue25 June 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
POSH – just a play? Or a real problem for Cameron, Osborne and Johnson?
First things first, and a quick line the producers of POSH can use in any publicity should they wish to ... 'topical, relevant, well-written, well-cast, well-acted and very thought-provoking.' As to w... Continue10 June 2012
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.