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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

The politics of the Budget are clear – and the holes are becoming clearer too

If the frontbench had accepted Ed Miliband's invitation to raise their hands if they were going to be better off as a result of the Budget, we'd have seen an awful lot of fingers in the air. I underst... Continue

21 March 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Bit of a whiff developing around the Gove email saga

Michael Gove looked like a naughty boy caught with his hand in the sweet jar when Ed Miliband quizzed the Prime Minister about the Schools Secretary's ill-judged running commentary on the Leveson Inqu... Continue

3 March 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

The Time to Change campaign needs politicians as well as sports stars to open up about depression

My last blog was about depression and sport. I make no apology for returning to the theme today, inspired by going on twitter to see how Ed Miliband's interview with Andrew Marr was going down - mixed... Continue

15 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

With the right-wing media kicking Ed, ‘Blairite zombie’ conspiracy theories from the left don’t exactly help him

So as expected, Ed Miliband's speech got the thumbs down from most of the broadcasters yesterday. The mood around the Labour leader has been a good illustration of how the modern media works, and why ... Continue

11 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

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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