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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

Papers should do a few Olympic focus groups and listen to what people are saying

Greetings from France, where this weekend Bradley Wiggins will write himself into the list of great British sportsmen. The Tour de France is one of the greatest and toughest sporting events in the cal... Continue

21 July 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

After a period of silence, an omniblog on Dave-George-Vince omnishambles, Ed and TB, and Bank of Dave

One of the nice things about writing your own blog, rather than a newspaper column, is that you can write what you want when you want, and not be driven by the agenda or deadlines of others. So when ... Continue

13 July 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

My first ever rebuttal of a sex scene after Fifty Shades of crap Guardian editing

Unsurprisingly, Guardian readers have been rubbishing my so-called sex scene in today's paper, where I was one of several writers asked to try to turn on women with words and so further help fuel ... Continue

7 July 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Don’t blame poor Chloe Smith for Osborne and Gove omnishambles

One of the more repellent aspects of the play POSH that I keep going on about is, as I said in this review in The Independent, the sexism of the young aristo Oxford Tory members of the Riot aka Bullin... Continue

27 June 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Great time on The Wright Stuff, and why I am renaming my diaries Fifty Shades of Power

I must admit to being a bit grouchy with Random House publicity for getting me up for another early start in order to spend much of the morning as a panellist on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. I am not... Continue

26 June 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Gove is playing fast and loose with education as a way of aiming even higher (for himself not kids)

As Michael Gove reflects on his latest intervention, what will have the greater impact on him as he surveys the weekend papers with his usual careful reading? ... the fact that he has annoyed huge nu... Continue

23 June 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Murdoch’s phone call on Iraq … a little contextualisation

To be fair to Rupert Murdoch - you don't hear that too often these days - News International were right to say last night that 'there isn't any evidence in Alastair Campbell's diaries' that ' he was p... Continue

16 June 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Clegg should make clear he can’t support the Gove-Osborne view on Leveson

Yesterday Nick Clegg tells his MPs not to support Jeremy Hunt in a Commons vote. Today the Deputy Prime Minister appears at the Leveson Inquiry. I suspect there may be a link, and I hope his distancin... Continue

13 June 2012

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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