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Alastair Campbell

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Derek Draper and the Dalai Lama

The point of life is to live it and Derek embodied this

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Israel must talk to Hamas

Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen

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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

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Sunak is no different from his predecessors

Where is the “integrity and accountability” the prime minister promised?

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Don't buy into Sunak's election distraction tactics

The sooner the prime minister calls an election, the better

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Farewell Jacques Delors

Delors’ political vision was spot on for the time, just as it is now

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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

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: The remarkable Glenys Kinnock

The Kinnock family and the Labour party have lost a matriarch

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Farewell Glenys Kinnock and Alistair Darling

Their passing has marked a sad week for the entire Labour family

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My friend Alistair Darling

He was a better politician than he ever knew

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Imagine if Boris Johnson had backed Remain...

Instead he chose the path to No 10 and we are all paying the price

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Cameron is not the answer to Sunak's problems

The prime minister clearly hoped Cameron’s heft would prevent him becoming a source of division

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Brexit forever changed Irish politics

It is hard to overestimate the damage the combination of Brexit, Johnson and Truss has done

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: The findings of the Covid inquiry merit real punishment

The damage Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings did to the country is off the scale

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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The uplifting school which would take Farage to his breaking point

An academy where 85% of pupils have English as a second language found engaged, informed children with high aspirations and plenty of questions

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: What Yuval Noah Harari can teach us about Israel and Gaza

Harari believes prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should accept responsibility, vow to see the crisis through, and then go

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: What Labour should do next

This week, Keir Starmer needed to show, in policy terms, how life in Britain would change if he became prime minister

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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: For Labour, it’s all to play for

Polling suggests that a victory for the party at the next general election could be anything from a coalition to a landslide

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Rishi Sunak brought the Tories to a new low

Sunak's U-turn on the environment makes Boris Johnson and Liz Truss appear honest and capable

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: The most brutal speech I ever heard

We need more great oratory in Westminster, not less

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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Westminster’s back-to-school omnishambles

London’s school-run traffic is reminiscent of a Tory government that takes a long time to get nowhere

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Mental health is a vote-winner

A clear plan from Labour on how to repair the damage the Tories have done to our mental health services will reap enormous political dividends

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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Vladimir Putin’s belligerence must not be underestimated

The world, including myself, missed tell-tale signs that Putin was the murder machine and enemy of liberal democracies he’s proved to be

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Real journalism is in decline

The Michelle Mone PPE scandal is a test of trust in modern democracy and needs to be at the forefront of media attention

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Alastair Campbell's Diary: Brexiteers won't talk about the B-word

If Brexit was going well, we would never hear the end of it. Instead, there's an omertà on the subject

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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: We have not had a serious media in the UK for years

Instead, we have dumbed-down political and commercial interests masquerading as purveyors of news, lurching from one spasm to another

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