Labour’s communications challenge for the NHS

I sat recently at the back of a focus group and watched people discuss their favourite and least favourite brands. It was a business rather than a political exercise, but there were as ever some inter... Continue

18 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

In praise of Keighley

A friend up north tells me that one of the local papers in my home town of Keighley, Yorkshire, has a report I ought to know about. It says that 'Politicians and pop stars, academics and business chie... Continue

17 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

A night at the Emirates

What a joy it must be to support a team close to your home. Here I am, just gone eleven, and I'm home after watching Arsenal give a football lesson to Cardiff, a bit like Burnley gave a lesson to Arse... Continue

17 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

When marriage is tested

It has been interesting to see what kind of twittering or Facebook status updating provokes the most intense responses. Blogging about Boris and the F word started a lively debate. The stuff I did las... Continue

16 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Spare me the myths and the whining

I stand to be corrected (and will happily publish such a correction here) but I think I am right in saying no national newspaper editor sends their children to State schools. This is worth bearing in ... Continue

15 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Dave Cameron – is that all there is?

Sorry to go on about Dave Cameron again (oh ok, I'm not sorry at all) but I saw him blathering on the story about the 13-year-old who became a Dad. He had exactly the same intensity of expression he a... Continue

14 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Boris Johnson: F is for …

I never read any of the freesheets handed out in London on the grounds that I am unsure which are pouring more money into the evil that is Paul Dacre and his Mail newspapers. But as I travelled on the... Continue

13 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

The Cameron vacuum

Whenever I'm confronted with someone who says they're thinking of voting Tory, I ask them to name three things David Cameron would do as Prime Minister? Even with people who follow politics closely, i... Continue

12 February 2009

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Interviewing Clinton part 2

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12 February 2009

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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