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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

Poor old Cameron thinks twitter and David Letterman can rescue him from lack of success or strategy

In so far as our Prime Minister impinges upon today's Labour media monitoring unit analysis of the day's papers, it is via the revelations that he is to appear on a well-known American chat show, and ... Continue

25 September 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Romney, thanks to his gaffes, the Tea Party and Fox News, is turning out to be Obama’s best asset

Here is a piece the Telegraph asked to do on Mitt Romney's latest balls-up, his stupid comments on 'victim' Americans, and anti-peace Palestinians. We could be reaching the point of no return for Mr R... Continue

19 September 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

In hiding away ‘inside Ecuador’ Assange is helping a leader whose media policies Wikileaks should be exposing

First, before getting onto the subject in the headline, a restatement of the basic message in my excessive tweets re last night's Paralympics opening ceremony. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Danny B... Continue

30 August 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

On Romney and Ryan, strategy and tactics – piece for TIME magazine

Following my blog on Mitt Romney appointing Paul Ryan as his running mate, TIME magazine asked me to write a piece for their international edition. Here it is. To win a campaign, you have to make the... Continue

24 August 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

For Romney, read McCain; for Ryan, read Palin. Good tactics, bad strategy. Obama can smile

This is not hindsight speaking, because I said at the time of John McCain's appointment of Sarah Palin as his running mate that it was 'tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous.' I have said it ... Continue

14 August 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Great time on The Wright Stuff, and why I am renaming my diaries Fifty Shades of Power

I must admit to being a bit grouchy with Random House publicity for getting me up for another early start in order to spend much of the morning as a panellist on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. I am not... Continue

26 June 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Free research for anyone minded to follow up Independent on Sunday non-story splash

Based on a passage in my diary (clearly missed by The Guardian who serialised Burden of Power last week) The IoS has splashed with 'How Blair misled Cabinet on Iraq.' The Guardian were right to miss i... Continue

23 June 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Murdoch’s phone call on Iraq … a little contextualisation

To be fair to Rupert Murdoch - you don't hear that too often these days - News International were right to say last night that 'there isn't any evidence in Alastair Campbell's diaries' that ' he was p... Continue

16 June 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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