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New website, new look, new book, New European, new and old battles to fight

OK, I’ve listened. I’ve listened to people like the wonderfully named James Ski, who stood up at a mental health event I was speaking at, and said ‘I’m a big fan, but your website’s shit.’... Continue

Politics has so much to learn from business and sport in the art of winning

It is always a nice moment when the publisher sends through the final, final version of the cover of a planned new book. It is especially nice when the designer has taken an idea given by the author -... Continue

21 November 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

It’s my book and I’ll plug if I want to (…at least until the alcohol crisis subsides)

We were up in Scotland for Christmas, internet connection suitably weak, cycling conditions wet but beautiful, mental health conditions the usual end of old year/start of new up and down, so I laid of... Continue

3 January 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

On women and booze, and why more and more women are getting more and more worried

When I made a documentary on alcoholism for the BBC a couple of years ago, one of the first people to get in touch was Lucy Rocca who, together with a friend, had set up an online self-help group for ... Continue

13 October 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

One terrific speech does not change the weather overnight – the whole Party must now raise its game to beat these oh-so-beatable Tories

Barack Obama's strategist David Axelrod once said that political conventional wisdom is almost always wrong and we have had a good example of that in Britain recently. Over the summer the convention... Continue

25 September 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

My anger at McBride is not his gift to the Tories now, but the one he and other GB people gave in helping Labour lose power

I really like Iain Dale, and believe the Tories missed a trick when he tried and failed to become an MP for them. He would have been a good MP, and perhaps a good minister. But he has fulfilled an im... Continue

22 September 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Memo to Labour – energy, fight, future policy, stand up for Labour record, Britain, NHS, immigration too, and demolish worst govt in memory

Having been in hospital from Monday to Thursday I watched more TV news than usual this week, and spotted a trend, one which is useful to Labour as the party conference begins. It is that the Tory Go... Continue

21 September 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cameron, Clegg and Miliband should listen to police and doctors re costs of booze

I was going to spend part of today's sickbed sojourn writing a blog about the Lib Dem conference, but Chief Constable Adrian Lee's remarks that Britain needs to take a long hard look at its drinking c... Continue

15 September 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

More rebuttal on book interview headlines – and reminder to Labour re ‘mess we inherited’ rebuttal on economy

Another day, another perfectly fair, accurately quoted interview, this time in the Daily Telegraph, with Celia Walden. There are various reasons why I said 'yes' when she asked to do the piece. First,... Continue

9 September 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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