4 February 2020
Posted by Alastair Campbell
In defence of Number 10’s top civil servant in face of FT gossip column
Sue Cameron is a journalist on the Financial Times who specialises in painting a picture of senior mandarins as all-knowing and jolly clever and so much better than those terrible politicians they hav... Continue16 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Is it such a bad thing that London is PR capital of the world?
Phil Stephens had a very measured column in the FT last week about the fact that UK PR companies always seemed to be on hand to help less democratic countries than ours with a bit of image advice. I h... Continue12 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Support the Demoratic Life campaign to keep citizenship on the curriculum
The hints that the Government is thinking about removing citizenship from the curriculum are becoming a little louder. It would be yet another mistake by Michael Gove, at a time the government is de... Continue10 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
An English lesson for Jamie Oliver; a lesson for us all that teaching is hard
I finally caught up with the first episode of Jamie's Dream School last night. May I begin by ticking off Mr Oliver for using 'less' when he meant 'fewer.' Tut, tut, as fellow teacher David Starkey mi... Continue5 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Well done Dan Jarvis, and my latest litttle battle against the evil of the Mail
I've been away having laptop connection problems so apart from a couple of tweets I have not been able to congratulate Labour's Dan Jarvis on his excellent by-election win. And yes, of course I knew L... Continue4 March 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
28 February 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Cameron, Clegg, Hague and Fox could do with some basic lessons in government and politics
My God they are still blessed, this Tory government. Can you even begin to imagine the hue and cry, the howling, raging, screeching tone of the papers and the tellybabblers if a Labour government's ha... Continue25 February 2011
Posted by Alastair Campbell
A word of defence for William Hague, and a reminder of Gaddafi and WMD
I didn't hear William Hague's interview on the Today programme - I am a silence person first thing - but the avalanche on twitter suggested he didn't do terribly well. I thought I would offer a word ... Continue24 February 2011
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.