Marr right that TB book like no other prime ministerial memoir
Fair play to Andrew Marr for giving a more rounded view of Tony Blair's book than will come over from the screaming headlines. What is coming through from the small number of people who have actually ... Continue1 September 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Copenhagen really matters. Guardian front page sets scene well
A surprisingly impactful front page of The Guardian today, given that the headline is a non-screaming quote from their own editorial and the only picture an unrelated head and shoulders shot of Helen ... Continue7 December 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Guardian scoop has big questions for press, cops and Cameron
It is not often that a breaking news story stops me getting into the car and going to see my Mum up north before heading on to Burnley tomorrow to carry on with the film I am making on the club's pro... Continue8 July 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Guardian of social justice or attention-seeker?
Up early and off to Hull for a mental health conference. Having caught the end of Newsnight, I was thinking it would be good for my own mental health if I avoided the papers, but it is impossible to e... Continue3 June 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Guardian sightings and the email and bath plug agenda
It says something about the kind of (left of centre) visitors we have up here in Scotland that on successive days we have had sightings of The Guardian. Sighting one, on Monday, had a short extract... Continue15 April 2009
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.