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Unleadership – a new word that sadly sums up Britain in these worrying times

Though some make a case for Winston Churchill and Elizabeth the First as the greatest ever Briton, for me nobody gets near William Shakespeare. He is one of the reasons English has become the pre-emin... Continue

If Cameron and Lansley plough on with NHS car crash, it could yet be the end of them

I haven't read The Times, so I am only going on an edited version of Rachel Sylvester's column today, as summed up by Labour's media monitoring department. At the risk of offending Rupert's paywall p... Continue

7 February 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Another call for full inquiry into banking catastrophe – it will have to happen so Dave may as well do now

I was pleased that Gillian Tett of the Financial Times backed the call  I made for a Chilcot/Leveson style inquiry into the banking disaster when we appeared on This Week last night. When Andrew Nei... Continue

3 February 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

So Sir Fred loses his K? So what? Is that to be the only reckoning of the banking disaster?

I'm not sure what to make of this Sir and now not so Sir Fred Goodwin. He was clearly up to all sorts that he shouldn't have been and RBS became a disaster area under his tenure, for which we are all... Continue

1 February 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Francois Hollande could be the beneficiary of Merkel-Sarko election pact

Yes that was me tweeting in German last night, digging into my modern languages education to remember all I could, and surprised how much that was. Truth is, as I am about to say to a conference in Be... Continue

30 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

At long last Europe’s leaders realise youth unemployment has to be top of the agenda

Endlich, enfin, AT BLOODY LAST ... Europe's leaders are starting to realise that they might have to do something beyond enjoying the scenery in Davos to address the problem of youth unemployment. Thi... Continue

29 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Leveson could take a look at how benefits debate works against truth, and so harms policy and people

The airwaves filled up nicely for the government yesterday, backed by constant use of rag headlines from rag right-wing papers, with the line that most struggling families would be 'happy' with £3500... Continue

24 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Weird agreements break out on The Big Questions, and with Joey Barton

Despite feeling like death warmed up on waking - am on antibiotics for a chest infection and anti-depressants for Le Chien Noir - I enjoyed the BBC Big Questions debate. I know Nicky - no relation - ... Continue

22 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

A gentle sob at the Tory Big Lie; and grumblings from business re procurement not keeping up with change

To a conference of software suppliers organised by Opentext, where ex civil servant Jonathan Portes and I were the keynote speakers. Jonathan now runs the National Institute of Economic and Social Res... Continue

19 January 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.

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