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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

PinkVanGate, FinkGate, BaldwinGate – why Labour should take heart from Tory press desperation

From PinkVanGate to FinkGate to BaldwinRobinsonGate, the election is getting nasty and silly at the same time, and there are two common factors running through them all - Tory desperation and the Tory... Continue

14 February 2015

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Time for Labour to regain initiative on the politics of the economy amid Osborne’s failures and flailings

Alan Johnson is my next interviewee for GQ, out later this week. Yesterday the magazine's spin doctors (they're everywhere you know) put out a few selected quotes and some of the papers have focused o... Continue

1 December 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Miliband party reforms an opportunity to take broader message of change to the country

If the battles fought by Neil Kinnock and John Smith to change the Labour Party seem like an age ago, that is because they were. It is now more than 20 years since they fought for the principle of O... Continue

1 February 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Self interested media/business attacks on 50p an opportunity for Labour (with PS on hypocrite Dacre)

As the debate over Labour's 50p tax plans develops, it is worth remembering that a small proportion of people will be affected by it, but that a very large proportion of the small proportion will be w... Continue

27 January 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Suddenly it is Cameron’s Tories looking and sounding like the Opposition, and Miliband’s Labour making the weather

So, if the BBC story is right, whilst David Cameron and Co were condemning Ed Miliband as a crypto-Marxist for thinking 'the State' could do anything about energy prices, the government was trying to ... Continue

29 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

On women and booze, and why more and more women are getting more and more worried

When I made a documentary on alcoholism for the BBC a couple of years ago, one of the first people to get in touch was Lucy Rocca who, together with a friend, had set up an online self-help group for ... Continue

13 October 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

One terrific speech does not change the weather overnight – the whole Party must now raise its game to beat these oh-so-beatable Tories

Barack Obama's strategist David Axelrod once said that political conventional wisdom is almost always wrong and we have had a good example of that in Britain recently. Over the summer the convention... Continue

25 September 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Memo to Labour – energy, fight, future policy, stand up for Labour record, Britain, NHS, immigration too, and demolish worst govt in memory

Having been in hospital from Monday to Thursday I watched more TV news than usual this week, and spotted a trend, one which is useful to Labour as the party conference begins. It is that the Tory Go... Continue

21 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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