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If the BBC think their supine stance on Brexit will save them from the hard right, they are naive in the extreme

'All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.' These words, most commonly attributed to the 18th Century Irish-born Whig Edmund Burke, may have come from someone viewed by s... Continue

If Lineker can speak out against booze and gambling in sport, so can politicians. And they should

So he goes from the World Cup in Rio to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and next stop the Edinburgh TV Festival for Gary Lineker. Busy man. Lineker is my latest GQ interviewee, the magazine out th... Continue

4 August 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Poor Piers Morgan cannot bear to admit the truth about my sporting prowess

For two days in a row I have to rebut the heinous slurs of the right-wing media. Yesterday The Sun on Sunday on my work in Albania, today mon vieux ami-ennemi Piers Morgan in the aptly named Mail on S... Continue

13 July 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Albania, me and the Sun on Sunday – a little context via prebutttal

Not blogged for a while, as some of you have been reminding me. No, not depression, but working hard on my next book, about Winning and Winning Mindsets, travelling, interviewing, writing, and general... Continue

12 July 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Dacre, ‘Lord’ Black, Murdoch on wrong side of argument and history – fight for new regulator close to tipping point

To Millbank Tower last night - from where we ran the 1997 and 2001 election landslides - to a staging post of another important winning campaign, namely the one to get proper independent regulation of... Continue

19 March 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Guest blog from a poor soul working for Mailonline

One of the reasons I know the Mail is a horrible paper, and a horrible place to work, with horrible values, is because people who work there tell me. I keep urging them to leave, to understand that pu... Continue

18 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cambridge Lecture 2: Optimistic despite press lies re Leveson, new social media oligarchs, Snowden/Wikileaks (and why Merkel is best)

Lecture 2 in my series of events as Humanitas Visiting Professor at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, delivered today. A few years ago, Carl Ber... Continue

14 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cambridge Lecture 1: New generation of people and technology signalling end of Murdoch-Dacre generation

Professor Campbell here, with the first of the two lectures I am making this week in my debut performance as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media (cue Dacre Vagina Monologue) at Cambridge University.... Continue

13 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

My views, as a Cambridge professor no less, on politics and the press; not as clear or straight-forward as I expected

Never did I imagine, as I drank, fought and very occasionally studied my way through four years as a Cambridge University student, that one day I would be a 'visiting professor' no less. Also, given t... Continue

12 November 2013

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.

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