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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

A tale of two Parliamentarians – Skinner and Gove

Dennis Skinner may not thank me for saying so, but he was a huge support to me, and more importantly to Tony Blair, when TB was Prime Minister. Yes, he lambasted some of the changes made as huge stri... Continue

18 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Freddie Flintoff and friends did a great job for depression last night

Congratulations to Freddie Flintoff and the BBC for last night's documentary on depression in sport. Sport plays such a central part in so many lives, and I have no doubt that the collection of sports... Continue

12 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Ed Miliband’s message is striking a chord amid all the media negativity re him as message-carrier

Today's Financial Times has a full page ad (and a right-hand page 7 at that) for the Business in the Community awards. Down at the bottom of the page are a number of companies and their logos. The com... Continue

10 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Disability campaigners expose sham/cover-up of coalition consultation on benefit reforms

Today's blog is given over to a press release from a group of disabled disability campaigners who have exposed the sham that is the coalition government's public consultation on Disability Living Allo... Continue

9 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

If Cameron wants to spread happiness, he should narrow the gap between rich and poor

Thank you for all the nice comments on twitter about the Guardian piece yesterday, an extract from my new ebook, The Happy Depressive, which is out on Thursday. The extract focused on Philip Gould, an... Continue

8 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cameron does God – vaguely

Nobody can accuse David Cameron of idleness. Fresh from telling the whole of Europe how to do its job, now he turns his attention to God. And in between times he has been sorting out the High Street w... Continue

17 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Maybe you needed to be there, but I can’t quite see why Cameron got such rave TV reviews for his brothers crack

Perhaps you needed to be there. But based on the clips I saw on the news, I cannot quite see why the broadcasters seemed to decide  as one that Ed Miliband had a disastrous PMQs yesterday. The papers... Continue

15 December 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Clegg vacates his chair in protest at Cameron vacating his chair – pathetic

So Nick Clegg didn't show up in the Commons today, because he didn't want to be a distraction. A distraction from what? A distraction from the fact that he is the most pro-European leader in UK polit... Continue

12 December 2011

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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