To Florence yesterday, to speak to the Schizophrenia International Research Society – go on, how many of you knew there was one. Well, there is, and I was very pleased to speak to them with my menta...
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5 April 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Labour will take its share of blame for Brexit shame
Jeremy Corbyn having sacked Owen Smith, the leader of the opposition is now closer to the government on Brexit than to a majority of Labour MPs, and a vast majority of the members he claims to listen ... Continue28 March 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
I don't know Jeremy Corbyn well enough to know whether he goes very big on soul-searching. But he should be searching deep right now, and asking himself how, under his leadership of the Labour Party, ...
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27 March 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Amid the annual backslapping at the UK Press Awards last week, nobody deserved her award more than The Observer's Carole Cadwalladr, for her series of reports about the role of Cambridge Analytica and...
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18 March 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
As we await Theresa May's 'big speech' tomorrow, her contribution to the Road to Brexit 'strategy,' I throw out a question ... can anyone remember anything from those 'big speeches' made so far in thi...
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1 March 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
We must strive to keep Brexit an ‘if’ not a ‘when’
You sometimes get the best answers by throwing back questions to the people who asked them, and seeking the wisdom of crowds. So, Monday night, Edinburgh, and in the question and answer, a man asks m... Continue1 March 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
And so, twenty months after getting their marching orders from the British people, the government has embarked on 'the road to Brexit.'
If you ask Mr Google the question 'how long does it take to bui...
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14 February 2018
Posted by Alastair Campbell
What the hell is going on at the BBC? Another great institution being harmed by Brexit
Yesterday the Daily Telegraph led on a 'story', part penned by Theresa May's former right-hand man Nick Timothy, that billionaire George Soros was at the heart of a 'secret plot' to reverse the EU ref... Continue9 February 2018
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.