Alastair Campbell
21 April 2025
Why Mark Carney is one of the luckiest politicians alive
It could well be that just days apart Burnley get promoted back to the Premier League and Carney, the first Canadian prime minister ever to have visited Turf Moor, wins the election
Read the full article09 April 2025
Vive la France, à bas JD Vance!
If Trump and his vice-president have a genius for anything, it’s global media dominance
Read the full article02 April 2025
Dear Rachel, here's a big idea for you
No matter how loudly we call for a return to the customs union and the single market, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are not going to listen
Read the full article26 March 2025
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Putin’s dirty tricks campaign
Whether or not they were involved in the Heathrow fire, the Russians revel in the mayhem their hybrid actions cause
Read the full article19 March 2025
The hard right will tear itself apart
The idea that Nigel Farage could be prime minister is laughable when he is struggling to hold his party together
Read the full article12 March 2025
Our media obsession with Trump is playing into China’s hands
China may soon become the most powerful country on earth – but the UK media has taken its eye off the ball thanks to the circus in America
Read the full article05 March 2025
Donald Trump, America's unserious narcissist
Despite all the warning signs the first time around, the world is paying a very heavy price for Trump 2.0
Read the full article26 February 2025
Donald and Vladimir, a love story
Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa
Read the full article14 February 2025
We need a Labour revolution on Brexit
Closer EU alignment would boost growth, strengthen our hand against an unpredictable US and set a trap for Farage and Badenoch
Read the full article12 February 2025
The Rest is Politics heads to Damascus
The scale of Ahmed al-Sharaa’s victory is immense. But, the challenge of rebuilding his shattered country is even greater
Read the full article05 February 2025
How I remember John Prescott
At the late former deputy prime minister’s funeral, it became clear that Britain could do with some politicians like him today
Read the full article29 January 2025
Finding a ray of hope in Trump’s dark new era
At Davos, Nigerian-American Salome Agbaroji's poetry urged leaders not to cower in the face of populism
Read the full article22 January 2025
Who's really to blame for populism?
There's a thin line between "progressives got a lot wrong" and "the far right are winning because they're right"
Read the full article15 January 2025
Elon Musk is a dictator in the making
Musk and Putin share a belief that facts don’t matter and there are no people or power structures that should be allowed to stand in their way
Read the full article06 January 2025
The cost of Elon Musk's dangerous lies
The ranting billionaire embarrassed himself, Donald Trump... and Nigel Farage. Now he has to pay the price
Read the full article31 December 2024
Even for politicians, death is the great leveller
The prime minister should be spared social media’s grief voyeurism as he mourns the loss of his brother
Read the full article18 December 2024
Alastair Campbell’s winners and losers of 2024
In many cases over the last 12 months, the people who looked like winners also turned out to be losers
Read the full article11 December 2024
What Farage told me about Musk, Trump & the Tories
It underlined that he views politics mainly through the lens of personality and rarely bothers with policy
Read the full article04 December 2024
Navalny's daughter will haunt Putin
The 23-year-old hopes to, one day, return to Russia and help make it a free country. She's certainly her father's daughter
Read the full article27 November 2024
The day John Prescott gave a speech to the sea
In paying their tributes, many people are still underestimating the former deputy prime minister
Read the full article21 November 2024
John Prescott was a great fighter and a great friend
The public saw his combative side, but those closest to him saw his heart
Read the full article20 November 2024
The word I want to get into the dictionary
The ‘trollification’ that happens on X, Elon Musk’s online hellhole, deserves a definition
Read the full article13 November 2024
Our shameful media, trolling for Trump
The British press featured some bizarre coverage of the US election this week, even by its own standards
Read the full article04 November 2024
President Trump. It doesn't bear thinking about.
Historians will analyse this election, and the phenomenon of Trump, for the rest of time
Read the full article30 October 2024
Why I'm obsessed with litter
You’re lucky to get a few seconds between spotting roadside refuse when driving in Britain. Tackling this is an easy win for the government
Read the full article23 October 2024
Life on the road with The Rest is Politics
We asked our listeners at the O2 whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick should be the next Tory leader. The response was bleak for both candidates
Read the full article09 October 2024
It’s about emotion, Keir, not economics
If Labour can restore a sense of community, it will reap as much political benefit as any amount of good economic data
Read the full article02 October 2024
The unwelcome return of the Brexit grifters
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson are journalists at heart and for years have got away with far more from their own kind as a consequence
Read the full article25 September 2024
What Keir Starmer must do now
The prime minister must stop giving the media the chance to go into frenzy or outrage mode
Read the full article18 September 2024
The Tories broke Britain
It is part of Labour's challenge to make sure the public never forget this reality
Read the full article11 September 2024
At home with Michel Barnier
In 2023, we visited the Barniers at home. I would never have predicted that a year later he’d become Macron’s prime minister
Read the full article04 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
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