Big Society looking thin after Cameron’s Liverpool trip
As David Cameron works away in the US - gee what a Big Society that is - let us consider what we learned from yesterday's (re)launch of his Big Society back home. We learned that his favourite Grang... Continue20 July 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron as Obama – you have to laugh – then vote Labour
If you took the value of the most expensive negative, personalised poster campaign of modern times, and added it to every pro-Tory, anti-Labour propaganda piece in a national media as biased as in an... Continue6 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Obama’s win good news for politics everywhere
With our own news again dominated this morning by MPs doing and sayings things they shouldn't be, once again Barack Obama is able to remind us that politics at its best is always the pursuit of noble ... Continue23 March 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A lesson in campaign mindset from young Labour students
I stayed up in Burnley after our latest heroic defeat last night to do a fundraiser for the town's new Labour candidate Julie Cooper. It was the perfect venue for a speaking event - looking out over ... Continue31 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Prepare for tears, tantrums and an imperfect but miraculous Copenhagen conclusion
I don't think I have ever attended an international summit that delivered a perfect outcome. It is the nature of Summitry, the land of compromise. It is also more likely that the more complicated the... Continue18 December 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron’s conkers add to his problem with serious opinion
I was up in Bolton for a mental health conference yesterday, then out at a dinner, and so missed all the news all day and by the time I got in, I just wanted to get to bed. But I was aware that yeste... Continue2 December 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Sarko at risk of riling Obama and GB. Cameron on conkers
A couple of weeks ago, a French magazine asked me to write a piece about the relationship between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy. We might like to think that politics and diplomacy is all about issues,... Continue1 December 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
US clarity of strategy required for full explanation on Afghanistan
Gordon Brown is right today to be setting out - and he should keep setting out - the basic case for Britain's involvement in Afghanistan. As Paddy Ashdown said yesterday, this war will not be won or ... Continue6 November 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.