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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

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... Continue

24 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

About time too – government recognising public money sometimes needed to get private money flowing

No cliche is being left unturned to emphasise the Prime Minister's determination to kickstart the sluggish economy. He is straining every sinew. He has found his passion (er ... again). He is on an al... Continue

31 October 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Clegg needs to do more than fulminate. This is also about wealth, power and opportunity

Nick Clegg is right to say the violence in London has been unacceptable, and the thieving opportunistic, and the senior police officer put up to do interviews in the absence of a Commissioner right to... Continue

8 August 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Financial Times expose on care homes must reading for Cameron and Lansley

It says something for the hold the downmarket papers have over the broadcasters that the Financial Times' lead story did not make it onto the bulletins this morning. Cheryl Cole's absence from X Facto... Continue

31 May 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

All hail Olli Issakeinen, the Finnish fib-watcher on Osborne’s case

It is one thing to have a following for writing a blog. Far more impressive, surely, is to have a following for being a regular commenter on a blog. Yet that is what is clearly happening to our Finni... Continue

5 January 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Happiness not a bad starting point for analysis of policy. The problem is the policy

I am not opposed to the idea, splashed across the Guardian, of including a measurement of happiness and well-being in any assessment of how well or otherwise the country and its families are doing. G... Continue

15 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Time for housing to get higher up the political ladder

To the Chartered Institute of Housing's conference yesterday. Nice bunch, not very keen on my fellow Keighley man Eric Pickles I sensed, and feeling a bit battered after the spending review. But I fe... Continue

11 November 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.