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171. Neil Kinnock: A Labour Rebel’s Path To Power (Part 1)

Whilst an early career MP, why did Neil Kinnock rebel against the Labour Party so regularly? As Labour leader, how did Kinnock take on militant and the ‘ultra-left’ within the Labour Party? What r... Continue

7: Lockdown #7

We're back for another heavy week. This is an episode focussed on mental health, less politics, and we are still continuing the conversation around #blacklivesmatter.  Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See aca... Continue

19 June 2020

6: Lockdown #6

We took a week out last week to listen and learn and offer our platforms to the #blacklivesmatter movement. This week we're back and talking about BLM, the end of lockdown, and JK Rowling's comments a... Continue

12 June 2020

Jacinda or johnson? proper leader puts charlatan to shame

Below is the behind-a-paywall piece I wrote for the New Zealand Herald on their government's success in dealing with Covid, compared with the national catastrophe that has befallen their old colonial... Continue

11 June 2020

PART 7, ANALYSIS Tory MP letters re cummings – rees-mogg and david davis late contenders for major BULLSHIT, CRAWLING AND BAD GRAMMAR prizes!

Just when I was thinking, thank God for that, the flood has slowed to a trickle, and I can have a day free of reading badly-written, horribly punctuated, politically tone-deaf letters from Tory MPs t... Continue

9 June 2020

Covid rants, rambles and ruminations, part 3

First, I want to thank all those people - the well-meaning ones, not the bots with lots of numbers after their social media names asking if I have gone insane - who have asked me to take care of myse... Continue

6 June 2020

Part 6, tory mps letters re cummings … the badness starts at the top, and runs deep

Just a dozen today, including a repeat offender. Well, I say repeat in that I mentioned Adam Holloway in Part 2 of this venture, when his emailed response to a Gravesham constituent asking ... Continue

6 June 2020

Part 5, Tory MP letters … grim and grisly, still they come … how many trees have fallen to print so much cut and paste bullshit?

Slowing to a steady trickle of new MP/yourref:Cummings/myref:CutAndPasteBullshit now, but still they come, and with them a lot more people starting to complain about the ones who just don’t answer ... Continue

4 June 2020

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.