Alastair Campbell
23 July 2025
My diary from Brixton prison
The problem with Britain’s justice system is that incarceration is more than a punishment – it destroys lives
Read the full article15 July 2025
Yes, it's a genocide
Fence sitting is no longer possible, or right. The manner and scale of Israel’s demolition of Gaza goes way beyond either legal proportion or respect for civilian life
Read the full article09 July 2025
How to understand Donald Trump
The chaos he inflicts on the world is perplexing, but his behaviour has clear patterns
Read the full article02 July 2025
After one year in office, here's what Starmer needs to do now
The prime minister has established strong relationships with leaders of other countries. But now he must fix the one he has with his MPs
Read the full article23 June 2025
Will Farage be prime minister? Really?
The media's obsession with Reform’s leader makes a disaster of Truss and Boris Johnson proportions ever more likely
Read the full article18 June 2025
Donald Trump's birthday parade is not America
The world saw through the spectacle for what it was: the whim of a self-styled strongman in need of flattery and adoration
Read the full article11 June 2025
Have the Channel Islands got it right?
After a few days in Guernsey, the Islands’ message was clear: ‘Our system works better than yours’
Read the full article05 June 2025
A new magazine for new times
The New World will hopefully outlast the new world trends, traits and personalities currently doing so much damage in so many ways
Read the full article28 May 2025
The country desperate for EU membership
Unfortunately for Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, the country's place in the EU will be secured not by optics, but by its democratic credentials and right now, those are being tested
Read the full article21 May 2025
Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts
Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage
Read the full article14 May 2025
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Pope vs JD Vance
Robert Prevost may have been born American, but his experience, views and values are as far from Trumpian as were his predecessor’s
Read the full article07 May 2025
Alastair Campbell’s diary: Labour can’t beat Farage at his own game
Don’t fight him where he is strong, fight him where he is weak – the economy, the NHS, Putin, Trump, climate, and yes, Brexit
Read the full article30 April 2025
The great Trump meltdown
Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?
Read the full article21 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
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