6 April 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Dream School has convinced me we need more not less politics teaching in schools
As I know from living with a virtually full-time State schools campaigner, education arouses enormous passions and very strong views. So it shouldn't really come as a surprise that Jamie Oliver's Drea... Continue8 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
As Cameron slithers from tactic to tactic, Mandelson and Straw right to defend difficult positions
I may not have liked much about Peter Mandelson's book ("'insufferably self-indulgent' - Alastair Campbell" doesn't seem to have made it to the quotes on the cover of the paperback). However, I totall... Continue7 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
An English lesson for Jamie Oliver; a lesson for us all that teaching is hard
I finally caught up with the first episode of Jamie's Dream School last night. May I begin by ticking off Mr Oliver for using 'less' when he meant 'fewer.' Tut, tut, as fellow teacher David Starkey mi... Continue5 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Well done Dan Jarvis, and my latest litttle battle against the evil of the Mail
I've been away having laptop connection problems so apart from a couple of tweets I have not been able to congratulate Labour's Dan Jarvis on his excellent by-election win. And yes, of course I knew L... Continue4 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A speech on journalism worth a careful read
I don't agree with every word of Lionel Barber's Cudlipp Lecture last night, and I hope the FT editor's larynx was coated in irony when he spoke of Paul Dacre towards the end. But for journalists ... Continue1 February 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
‘Bunch of twats’ – a fitting slogan for Tories on NHS reform
Ed Miliband will know well enough not to put too much faith in this morning's poll showing Labour 11 points ahead of the Tories. Better to be ahead than behind, but at this stage of the Parliament it ... Continue30 January 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A review of my diaries – by me!
The New Statesman this week runs a piece I wrote about what I had learned from reading my diaries of our first two years in power. Here it is ... 'Nobody can accuse you of writing a self-serving memo... Continue29 January 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Phone-hacking becoming a tipping point moment in politics/media relations
I was rushing around a lot yesterday making a short film on phone-hacking for The One Show on Monday, having earlier done an interview for a much longer Despatches documentary being made on the same s... Continue29 January 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.