Guest blog suggesting all is not well in NHS treatment of Boozeland
Regular visitors know how much I will stand up for the NHS, which does a great job for so many people, and whose basic values and principles are currently under attack from the top-down re-organisatio... Continue30 April 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
8 March 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
If Cameron and Lansley plough on with NHS car crash, it could yet be the end of them
I haven't read The Times, so I am only going on an edited version of Rachel Sylvester's column today, as summed up by Labour's media monitoring department. At the risk of offending Rupert's paywall p... Continue7 February 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Leveson could take a look at how benefits debate works against truth, and so harms policy and people
The airwaves filled up nicely for the government yesterday, backed by constant use of rag headlines from rag right-wing papers, with the line that most struggling families would be 'happy' with £3500... Continue24 January 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Disability campaigners expose sham/cover-up of coalition consultation on benefit reforms
Today's blog is given over to a press release from a group of disabled disability campaigners who have exposed the sham that is the coalition government's public consultation on Disability Living Allo... Continue9 January 2012
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Trying to explode myths about schizophrenia
If you listen to local radio, there is a chance you might hear me today, as I am heading for a marathon local radio session to talk about a new report on schizophrenia. Rethink Mental Illness have co... Continue22 November 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The economic costs of our failure to treat addiction
A brief word on the conference on addiction I spoke at in Ireland yesterday, and the visit to Toranfield House, which helps recovering addicts. First though, a tourism plug. County Wicklow has some ... Continue11 November 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
New shadow cabinet must now defend better, attack better, and win the future better
As Liam Fox and Chris Huhne were embarrassing themselves and the government last night, I won't have been the only one to have liked the younger, more feminine look of the new shadow cabinet. But I a... Continue8 October 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.