Alastair Campbell
10 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
Read the full article07 February 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Derek Draper and the Dalai Lama
The point of life is to live it and Derek embodied this
Read the full article31 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Israel must talk to Hamas
Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen
Read the full article24 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: There’s room for hope in British politics
In every election since 2010, fear has beaten hope but change is on the horizon
Read the full article17 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Sunak is no different from his predecessors
Where is the “integrity and accountability” the prime minister promised?
Read the full article10 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Don’t buy into Sunak’s election distraction tactics
The sooner the prime minister calls an election, the better
Read the full article03 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Farewell Jacques Delors
Delors’ political vision was spot on for the time, just as it is now
Read the full article20 December 2023
Alastair Campbell’s heroes and villains of 2023
Our diarist gives his personal rundown of who has been good – and who has been bad – over the last 12 months
Read the full article14 December 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The remarkable Glenys Kinnock
The Kinnock family and the Labour party have lost a matriarch
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