How twitter is changing balance of power in film indsutry
Movie industry marketing men, provided they had an A list cast and a big advertising budget, were once guaranteed a minimum of three days' major takings at the box office. The sheer weight of such a ... Continue18 February 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Buy books, raise money for Labour
1 February 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Buy The Blair Years and raise cash for Labour
In addition to publishing my new novel, Maya, this week, I am today launching a scheme to raise money for Labour's campaign to keep out the Tories by selling individually signed copies of The Blair Ye... Continue1 February 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Message machine Mandelson on form today
Say what you like about Peter Mandelson - some of you will doubtless take up the invitation - but he knows how to pack a few messages into a newspaper interview. I particularly like the way, in his ... Continue27 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Fire is always best turned on the Tories
When the Tories were slowly imploding in the run up to our first landslide victory in 1997, former minister Alan Clark called me to bemoan his party's fate. As my diaries show, this fellow diarist ph... Continue7 January 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Labour needs more of the winning mentality
Out to another Labour fundraiser last night, this one for my local constituency, Holborn and St Pancras. And not for the first time I found myself extolling the virtues of sport as an inspiration for... Continue9 November 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
No complacency, variants on a theme
Doubtless a few polls will be kicking around this weekend, and after my message to Labour yesterday to guard against complacency in the face of the BNP, a warning to the Tories today. December 5, 19... Continue24 October 2009
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Margaret Hodge MP on how to fight the BNP
With so much focus on Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time tonight, I thought visitors to the site might be interested in this piece from Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking. It is a seat whe... Continue22 October 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.