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The weird virus infecting Labour debate

My partner Fiona has a piece in The Guardian today pointing out not merely how much the last Labour government achieved in education, but also how absurd it is for someone like Zarah Sultana, a newly... Continue

Guest blog on the government’s shameful dumping of its alcohol strategy – from a liver specialist who lives with the fallout

Nick Sheron, a liver specialist from Southampton, unwittingly provided the creative spark that led to me writing My Name Is, my novel about alcoholism, from the perspective of a young woman. When I ma... Continue

17 January 2014

Posted by Alastair Campbell

On immigration, Europe and much else besides, it’s time Cameron stopped letting myth drive policy

If anyone needs any more evidence of how sustained media lies and distorted agenda setting has created a people out of touch with its own country, please take a look at this piece of work by IpsosMori... Continue

15 December 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Memories of Mandela: uniquely inspiring, a good man responsible for great things

Well, I suppose we have all had a long time to get used to the idea it might happen, but that does not minimise the sadness, nor the sense of loss, that he has finally gone. Both are reflections of th... Continue

6 December 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cameron and Johnson share prices falling simultaneously, Osborne supporters note

David Cameron's all-over-the-shopness continues apace, with one of his 'strategists' (sic) briefing that his new 'strategy' (sic) is to steal any good ideas put forward by Labour. In tones reminiscent... Continue

30 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Suddenly it is Cameron’s Tories looking and sounding like the Opposition, and Miliband’s Labour making the weather

So, if the BBC story is right, whilst David Cameron and Co were condemning Ed Miliband as a crypto-Marxist for thinking 'the State' could do anything about energy prices, the government was trying to ... Continue

29 November 2013

Posted by Alastair Campbell

If only Smart Alec Salmond could have brought himself to say ‘don’t know’ to some of the questions

The focus for both sides of the Scottish independence campaign is the large number of people saying 'don't know' whenever a pollster asks them how they intend to vote in the referendum next September.... Continue

27 November 2013

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

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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