6 April 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Thanks to the Con-Dems for making Question Time such fun
Many thanks to the new coalition government for helping to make Question Time even more enjoyable. Their idiotic decision to try to get me kicked off the panel by refusing to field a minister if I wa... Continue28 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Charles Kennedy speaks for many Lib Dems
For reasons to do with the fact that we spend a week each year in the Highlands, and that Charles Kennedy is a good bloke, we saw a bit of him and his wife Sarah shortly before the election campaign p... Continue16 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Italian interview on Dick Clamberon, TB, GB, Murdoch inter alia
Am back from Ireland, a bit tired after a late night after The Late Late Show. I do love the Irish, who seem to loathe the idea of a Tory government in Britain as much as I do, and most of whom seem t... Continue15 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Lib Dem desertions coming thick and fast. Business not impressed with Clameron
Off to Dublin today to see a few old friends and do the Late Late Show. It'll be nice to be in a country where the majority will have no truck with the idea that a Conservative government could ever b... Continue14 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
As Dick Clameron love-in begins, brilliant Martin Argles photos more powerful than words
It comes to something when it is a Guardian photographer, the splendid Martin Argles, who sets off the waterworks. As readers of The Blair Years know, I am not averse to a bit of tearfulness as emo... Continue13 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
What’s changed and what hasn’t after yesterday?
After all the drama and excitement of yesterday, some things have changed and some haven't. GB signalling his departure as Labour leader is a change, though one that should not have been hugely unexpe... Continue11 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron as Obama – you have to laugh – then vote Labour
If you took the value of the most expensive negative, personalised poster campaign of modern times, and added it to every pro-Tory, anti-Labour propaganda piece in a national media as biased as in an... Continue6 May 2010
Posted by Alastair Campbell
He has his faults, but my God you have to admire GB depth and resilience
When there are so many undecided voters, the last stages of the campaign matter more than any other. I imagine most visitors to this site made their minds up some time ago. Since starting this blog, ... Continue5 May 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.