Alastair Campbell
04 September 2024
Scottish independence has lost its salience for younger generations
During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar
Read the full article28 August 2024
We can't be blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome
If you fail to see beyond the Trump lies, the chaos and narcissism, you fail to understand why people might vote for him in the first place
Read the full article20 August 2024
The unstoppable Kamala Harris
Harris is making the most of this opportunity while Trump is, frankly, floundering
Read the full article13 August 2024
Fascism has no place in Britain
Nigel Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's cries to the far right mob do not represent this country
Read the full article07 August 2024
The Trump-Vance ticket is laughable
Ironically, the Trump campaign is trying to paint Kamala Harris’s likeability as a joke
Read the full article31 July 2024
JD Vance's questionable rise to political fame
Vance is an odd choice. Insights from his memoir only make the decision stranger
Read the full article24 July 2024
Biden’s long-awaited decision is game-changing
The ‘Trump can’t lose’ rhetoric now, at last, has some serious competition
Read the full article17 July 2024
Erdoğan's hold could be weakening
Despite the president’s propaganda machine, Turkish people appear confident that their democracy is strong enough to vote him out of office
Read the full article10 July 2024
Opposition never suited Starmer, but government does
Despite the enormous challenges he faces, Starmer has already grown into the role of prime minister
Read the full article03 July 2024
Britain deserves a change in government
Meanwhile, in Newark, Robert Jenrick appears to fancy himself as future Tory leader
Read the full article26 June 2024
The Conservatives deserve a superdefeat
What the Tories mean by a ‘supermajority’ is that they are set to lose really, really badly on July 4. Good
Read the full article23 June 2024
Sunak’s new campaign plan revealed
The Conservatives know their best hope of avoiding a wipeout is to stir up apathy
Read the full article21 June 2024
The Tory voter suppression strategy
The bad news is that it’s beginning to work
Read the full article19 June 2024
Labour cannot avoid the elephant in the room
To pretend we can become the fastest growing economy in the G7 – Labour’s No 1 mission – without addressing how to recover from Brexit risks undermining it
Read the full article12 June 2024
Sunak’s D-day disaster will define his campaign
Are Sunak’s advisers so politically inept that they could not see the enormity of the own goal they were about to score?
Read the full article06 June 2024
How to fight the populists
Unless we fight the political liars and the lies they tell, our political future is lost
Read the full article05 June 2024
Levelling up was only ever a slogan
After 14 years of the Tories, the spending gap per student between the state and private schooling system has more than doubled
Read the full article29 May 2024
My election diary, week one
Is someone in the prime minister’s team deliberately trying to derail his campaign from within?
Read the full article22 May 2024
One school's lesson in hope
It would take a lot more than a change in government to turn around the lives of some of the pupils at The Heath – but it would be a start
Read the full article15 May 2024
Britain’s mental health crisis is real – but Sunak doesn’t care
The prime minister's 'sicknote culture' wrongly blames the mentally ill for the country's economic problems
Read the full article08 May 2024
Mitsotakis’s lessons for Sunak
Unlike our PM, the Greek leader listens to questions and actually answers them
Read the full article01 May 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Britain is better with the NHS
Much of the criticism the NHS receives is given by the ministers who helped create its problems
Read the full article24 April 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Sunak’s sicknote moral mission is nothing of the sort
Targeting ill and disabled people is a desperate move from the prime minister. Sick, you might say
Read the full article17 April 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Mail is hiding scandals of its own
The paper’s attacks on Angela Rayner reek of hypocrisy and double standards
Read the full article10 April 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Brexiteers’ Singapore-on-Thames promise was a con
Deceitful Brexiters always knew that a post-Brexit Britain and Singapore would be deeply incompatible
Read the full article03 April 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Tories deserve to be annihilated at the election
It might even be better for the Conservatives too, but I am less concerned about them than I am about Britain
Read the full article20 March 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Keir Starmer is better suited to government than opposition
Tom Baldwin’s biography of the Labour leader suggests we will see a return to serious politics if Starmer makes it to No 10
Read the full article13 March 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Isaac Levido’s tactics have lost their shine
The old tactics of wedge politics, dog-whistling and dead cats are not working quite as well as they once did
Read the full article05 March 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: China’s useful idiots are on the rise
We allow Russia and China far greater access into our media ecosystems than we can gain into theirs, which gives them a huge asymmetric advantage
Read the full article28 February 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Parliament’s lessons from the Commons Gaza vote
An issue as serious as the Israel-Gaza war got lost in arcane parliamentary semantics
Read the full article21 February 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The prime minister is sunk
I'm starting to think the Tories are heading back, not a day too soon, into opposition
Read the full article14 February 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Laura Trott’s car crash economics get a free ride
The reaction to her catastrophic interview would have been inescapable if Trott were a Labour minister
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