Featured

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

Time for families of Lib Dem MPs to stand up for what they used to believe in

I would love to be a fly on the wall of kitchens and living rooms at weekends in the homes of Lib Dem MPs now helping the Tories do things they always wanted to but never dared to try. Politicians by... Continue

7 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Too late for Libs and Greens to lament Charles Clarke demise

So there I was, tapping away at the computer, and it just went dead. Kaput. Bye-bye. In our household, I know not how to deal with these things, but Fiona does and she has now got someone in who is so... Continue

6 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

The joins of the dark arts are showing in coalition leak

I don't know if Malcolm Tucker is to be killed off now that the coalition has replaced Labour, or if a new coalition version may replace him, but if the latter is the case, he/she and its scriptwriter... Continue

2 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

A lazy Monday blog for a ‘can’t be arsed’ Monday

The great thing about writing a blog, as opposed to a newspaper column, or an editorial, is that when you can't be arsed, you don't have to. One of the many bad things about our papers is that there ... Continue

1 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

If she’d stuck at the rat bit, Harriet would have been fine

As I got very wet cycling round and round the Emirates Stadium this morning, I was pondering whether a man could have got away with calling Danny Alexander a 'ginger rodent.' Maybe - that was the con... Continue

31 October 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Deep disillusion in deepest Cleggland; will he defect?

To deepest Cleggland last night, and if Mark Mardell thinks Barack Obama has disillusion problems, he should get himself to Sheffield for some of the real thing. I was speaking at the University Stud... Continue

29 October 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

If Boris Johnson’s Kosovo analogy was planned, then Cameron has a problem

You can never quite tell with Boris Johnson whether what comes out of his mouth is planned or wholly accidental. That he has some concerns about the coalition government's planned changes to housing ... Continue

28 October 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Great to see Clinton back on the campaign trail taking on the radical right

John Sawers, once TB's foreign policy advisor, now head of MI6, used to take the mick out of what he called my 'love-in' with Bill Clinton. That rather overstates it, but fair to say I had and have a... Continue

27 October 2010

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.