Alastair Campbell
15 October 2025
Why Trump should never be given the Nobel peace prize
Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it
Read the full article08 October 2025
How to spot the charlatans
Moisés Naím’s new book unpacks how these snake-oil shysters deceive the public
Read the full article01 October 2025
Don't take Curtis Yarvin seriously
Yarvin believes liberal democracy has failed and that monarchy should replace it. He just has absolutely no idea how to achieve this
Read the full article24 September 2025
Smash the populists, Keir
The prime minister needs to set out the path to a much better Britain than the one we have, before Nigel Farage does it for him
Read the full article17 September 2025
Where Starmer went wrong with the Mandelson debacle
Politics is as much about relationships and an understanding of human nature as it is about policy and legislation. The PM must learn this before it’s too late
Read the full article10 September 2025
When I unpacked the Putin papers
Today, the west sees Putin as a bloodthirsty dictator hellbent on destroying peace democracy in Europe. 25 years ago, the picture was very different
Read the full article03 September 2025
How Trump lost the moral high ground to China
Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him
Read the full article27 August 2025
Does Trump deserve the Nobel?
His desperation to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps deepens day by day, unsolved war by unsolved war
Read the full article13 August 2025
What cricket tells us about life
Americans may have Apple, Amazon and the lead in the AI race, but Donald Trump is killing their soft power
Read the full article04 August 2025
Trump isn't World King, he's a narcissist
The president’s trip to Scotland proves there’s a real harm in not holding his actions to account
Read the full article30 July 2025
My date with Ghislaine Maxwell
If you had said to me then she might end up attached to a powerful man, able to build and exploit connections wherever he found them, I could well have seen how it may happen
Read the full article23 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
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