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‘Podcast community’ – maybe there is more to it than I thought

Many thanks for the kind messages about the podcast I launched a few weeks ago with my daughter Grace, Football, Feminism and Everything In Between. We have been very lucky in the guests so far - Ed ... Continue

Weird agreements break out on The Big Questions, and with Joey Barton

Despite feeling like death warmed up on waking - am on antibiotics for a chest infection and anti-depressants for Le Chien Noir - I enjoyed the BBC Big Questions debate. I know Nicky - no relation - ... Continue

22 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

With the right-wing media kicking Ed, ‘Blairite zombie’ conspiracy theories from the left don’t exactly help him

So as expected, Ed Miliband's speech got the thumbs down from most of the broadcasters yesterday. The mood around the Labour leader has been a good illustration of how the modern media works, and why ... Continue

11 January 2012

Posted by Alastair Campbell

25 reasons why Sir Alex Ferguson is the greatest manager of all time

Fiona and I are on the way to Manchester for a dinner to celebrate Alex Ferguson's 25th anniversary as Manchester United manager. Partly in response to a few tweets and messages asking why I hadn't bl... Continue

6 November 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Robert Enke’s story is more important than Rio Ferdindand’s

While the press revels in the judgement that allows them to carry on with kiss and tell stories about footballers (provided they are England captain it would seem) I would like to focus not on Rio Fer... Continue

30 September 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Even table tennis tickets send shiver down spine with London 2012 one year away

My £7000 potential outlay led eventually to a couple of tickets for the table tennis early rounds and two sessions of athletic heats. Not exactly what I hoped for, and not nearly as good as the amazi... Continue

27 July 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

As Yardy takes another break, Boycott shows he is beginning to understand depression is an illness

Back in March, more in sorrow than in anger, I wrote a blogpost critical of my childhood hero Geoffrey Boycott, who had some some rather insensitive things about Michael Yardy, who had come home from ... Continue

15 June 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

In conversation with the MP who used Parliamentary privilege to out Ryan Giggs

There is only one show in town today, namely the Champions League Final, so if you will forgive the pre-match laziness, this blogpost consists merely of a cut and paste of the conversation I had with... Continue

28 May 2011

Posted by Alastair Campbell

FIFA needs the forces of the Arab spring to bring it into the modern world

I am slightly losing track of the allegations and counter allegations being made at the top of world football. But they are sufficiently numerous, and sufficiently confusing, that it can only be a mat... Continue

27 May 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.

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