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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

Hating the Mail – a mindset worth having

I booked a cab the other day, and saw The Daily Mail lying on the seat next to the driver. 'Sorry,' I said 'you can have me in the cab, or you can have the Mail, but you can't have both.' It was not ... Continue

17 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

A line by line guide to the Mail statement on Gately article outrage

Mail Group Obergruppenfuhrer Paul Dacre continues to hide under his stone so instead of getting his balding head above the parapet to deal with the Stephen Gately storm, he has left it to a statement ... Continue

16 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Hit the Mail where it hurts

According to a Facebook friend, the Daily Mail has rewritten the article about Stephen Gately that has caused an outpouring of offence across social networking sites. This will have been a direct resp... Continue

16 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Musings from Bertie Ahern, and how I won the Nobel prize for literature

By popular demand (well, a few Facebook friends and a few Irish journalists) here are some of Bertie Ahern's reflections from my 80 minute chat with him at the Cheltenham Book Festival. As I tweeted ... Continue

12 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Continuing double standards in the media

As I am interviewing Bertie Ahern at the Cheltenham Festival later today, I thought I'd catch him on the Marr programme to see whether he was in suit and tie or smart casual, and thereby get my dress ... Continue

11 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

The best policies in Cameron’s speech were those of Labour Big Government

In the next few hours, someone will do us the service of telling us which words and phrases were most used in David Cameron's speech. 'Big Government' will, I suspect, be top of the pops. Whilst pr... Continue

8 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Tongues slipping all over the place

Did Nick Robinson really refer to David Cameron as the Prime Minister? And should any of us be terribly surprised? Now of course it is possible to excuse the BBC political editor's mistake as a slip ... Continue

8 October 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Osborne inspires apathy at BBC Leeds

Call me a saddo, but I was determined to watch George Osborne's speech live. In the media age,this ought to have been straightforward. I left Sheffield, where I was picking up a 50k cheque from Drans... Continue

6 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.

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