In staying above the fray, Cameron is more regal than Prime Ministerial
I can't help thinking that if Tony Blair or Gordon Brown were Prime Minister, there would by now have been a media and/or political outcry about their seeming lack of interest or involvement in the we... Continue20 December 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A night of celebration of the life of Michael Foot
I hope you don't mind me reprinting in full here the comment posted by Jacquie Reed on the blog I did earlier about the coalition cutting off their noses to spite their faces by cutting government spe... Continue9 November 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Good to hear Bank Governor whacking banks; now let’s hear it from DC and Osborne
In the dying moments of the Labour government, namely those heady days between the election and Gordon Brown's departure from Downing Street, Bank of England governor Mervyn King was perhaps a bigger... Continue26 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Hoping to race to Number 1 in the Chinese bestsellers’ list
What with fundraisers, festivals, speeches, interviews, inquiries, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, not to mention life on websites, twitter, Facebook and the like, I spend a lot of my time answering ... Continue17 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
PMQs matter and Ed’s good start matters too
(A technical wizard has somehow found the blog that flew into the ether as I was heading to make a speech and present manufacturing industry awards in Ironbridge ... here it is) TB's book got a fresh... Continue14 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron and Miliband could learn a lot from Monsieur Wenger
I was interviewed by a student paper the other day, and asked what I had wanted to be when I was 7, 14 and 21. The answer was footballer, footballer and footballer even if, probably by age 7, and c... Continue8 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
People strangely unmoved by Cameron, but Labour need to get going now
To the lovely setting of Knowsley Park near Liverpool last night, and a speech to pensions experts. No, wait, wait, the specific brief was 'anything but pensions' so don't go away. Of course pensions... Continue7 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The curse of the soap-operization of politics
As David Miliband was preparing to make his announcement today, I was being interviewed by ITN's Mary Nightingale at a conference in Prague. It was a business audience and she was asking me about how... Continue29 September 2010
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.