Use the filters below to refine your search
Although the general election still seems a long way off, this year is one that will really matter in terms of developing policy and shaping what the party manifestos look like. Given the amount of time and effort that goes into producing…
Earlier this week Mark asked for your help. Dozens of you have responded to the call and donated to help keep the site growing in 2012. And a generous donor has matched those donations, ensuring that the impact of each one has been doubled…
By Alastair Campbell / @campbellclaret Gosh, David Cameron must have reeled his way out of the BBC studio after that mauling from Andrew Marr. That final question - tough or what? Hey, we can read the body language, said Marr ... 'you're on…
By Alastair Campbell / @campbellclaret The central questions in the forthcoming election campaign remain the same, and so do the answers. On the question of which party is best able to meet the challenges facing Britain, which party has the…
By Alastair Campbell / @CampbellClaret Three observations. 1. Yesterday's report suggesting some failings in the government's record on inequality attracted widespread broadcast and print media coverage. Today, so far as I can tell from a…
By Alastair Campbell / @CampbellClaret Today is the fourth anniversary of David Cameron's election as Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. I think we should all just have a moment's reflection, and ask ourselves what we consider…
By Alastair Campbell / @campbellclaret David Cameron last week chose an exclusive central London venue, the Paramount Club, with a ticket price of 50 pounds for a two-hour cocktail party, to blow kisses at the LGBT community. The lucky few…
By Alastair Campbell Funny old world...I was just arriving at Wimbledon, trying to find a telly that would be showing the Lions match, saying to my son that when we came here last year we were with Alan Milburn...when in pings a text from…
By Alastair Campbell It's obviously becoming stand-up-for-oldies week. Yesterday David Frost on his 70th birthday. Today another veteran into his eighth decade on the planet in the form of John Prescott. John is of course perfectly good at…
By Alastair Campbell I promise that my tweet last night - wondering whether David Cameron as Prime Minister could have delivered the G20 deal - was not merely rhetorical. If the polls are right, and don't change some time soon, then Cameron…
By Alastair Campbell Lots of memories stirred last night as I sat on a panel to help launch the Fabian Society's latest book, The Change We Need, on lessons Britain can learn from Barack Obama's victory. Memories because the venue was…
By Alastair Campbell A new survey on opinion in Iraq (broadly positive and so largely ignored by the UK media) shows people feel safer and more optimistic about their future. Eighty-five per cent describe security as good or quite good, up…
