Here is a piece I have done this morning for International Business Times.
I sometimes think David Cameron lives his life as his own Action Man doll, dressing himself up according to the various deme...
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30 December 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
I’ve not done a big blog for a while, so as I penned this speech for a conference in France today, and I saw it was getting close to the 5,000 word mark, I thought ‘why not? Get it up there.’
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20 December 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
‘European history will see this as the age of Merkel’
Angela Merkel having - rightly in my view - been named Time Magazine 'Person of the Year', I thought I would post the mini-profile of the German Chancellor I wrote in WINNERS AND HOW THEY SUCCEED.... Continue11 December 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Around the time of Charles Kennedy's death I spent a lot of time talking to his Lib Dem colleague, Norman Lamb. I didn't know him very well but had always felt, when he was a health minister, that he ...
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2 November 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Brailsford cycling genius + Bloodwise great cause = fantastic night out. Sign up here
Sir Dave Brailsford is a modern sporting genius. And Bloodwise is a great charity. So I hopefully won't need to give too hard a sell to get some of you to come along to hear the former talk about his ... Continue29 October 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
While the government was busy trying to cut tax credits for some of our poorest families, and while millions were watching Panorama's documentary on the calamitous impact of cuts to mental health serv...
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27 October 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
I had my run-ins with Panorama when working for Tony Blair, usually because they tended to take a grain of truth from somewhere and flam it up into something worthier of a right-wing tabloid than the ...
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24 October 2015
Posted by Alastair Campbell
Good luck to the pro-UK-in-EU campaign. Even having this damned referendum is bad for Britain
So the pro-Britain in Europe campaign moves into a different phase today, with M and S former boss Stuart Rose fronting up a collection of business people and politicians who have the considerable tas... Continue12 October 2015
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.