6 April 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The day my challenging student warned Cheltenham of war over benefit cuts
The Cheltenham Literature Festival seems to get bigger every year. It is possible to see the growth of literary festivals as part of the celebrity culture - so there I was, darling, chatting to Salman... Continue10 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Tory conference spin operation could do with some AC grip
I'm a bit cross with DC. I didn't see his interview on Channel 4 yesterday, but it popped up on my Google alert (an excellent device that lets you know who's saying what about you) when he defended A... Continue6 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron might welcome conference coverage without BBC ego-trips
Oh how intensely the Beeb's chatterati and Kremlinologists will be studying today's coverage of their letter calling on colleagues not to strike next week. I'm not saying you have to have an enormous... Continue1 October 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
The curse of the soap-operization of politics
As David Miliband was preparing to make his announcement today, I was being interviewed by ITN's Mary Nightingale at a conference in Prague. It was a business audience and she was asking me about how... Continue29 September 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
With our media, David M’s ‘no more soap opera’ is impossible
Excellent little off the cuff speech by David Miliband at Labour's conference today. He has handled himself well in defeat. He has a lot to offer. But just as yesterday I suggested his brother Ed wou... Continue27 September 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Special relationship not very special film
'The Special Relationship' goes out tonight, and in the build-up publicity, the promoters, as with The Deal and The Queen, have been keen to talk up how much research they did, and therefore how histo... Continue18 September 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Unions and David Miliband both doing well to resist gestures
Round one to the unions, I would say, in the battle to get themselves into the cuts debate on their terms rather than those of a media itching to portray them as some dreadful throwback to the past, o... Continue14 September 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Unions well placed to make big arguments v coalition cuts
It is possible to feel in the build up to the annual gathering of the TUC the media desire to generate a sense of some good old-fashioned industrial strife. Union leaders need to be careful though; no... Continue13 September 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.