Tag Archives: Alastair Campbell

The Daily Mail seems to have finally and, some would say, disastrously overstepped the mark with its attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband’s late father Ralph, a leading left wing academic of his day. The Tory-supporting Mail, obviously seeking to ...

You have to feel for new BBC director-general George Entwistle – no, not that way – who has walked into the biggest minefield the corporation has faced since Andrew Gilligan’s carelessly-worded (but true) allegation about Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell’s ...

Well he sort of is, former Downing Street comms chief Alastair Campbell (pictured) is going to work as a consultant for one of his former underlings, Portland PR boss Tim Allan who sold a majority stake to Omnicom in April. ...

Downing Street must be paved with gold – or so it must seem to Tim Allen (pictured), boss of London PR firm Portland, who has just sold a majority stake in his company to Omnicom. The deal values Portland at ...

Mark Thompson (pictured) has been director-general of the BBC since 2004 when he came back to the corporation from a short stint at Channel 4 as the Beeb reeled from the enforced departure of Greg Dyke. Dyke, a former boss ...

Senior advertising executives were probably quite happy to see David and Samantha Cameron scamper up the steps of 10 Downing Street last May. They had endured 13 years of hard Labour. A total ban on cigarette advertising in 2002 was ...

It has long been in Britain’s interests to advertise. From ‘Rule, Britannia!’ to ‘Cool Britannia’ it’s important for the British to be, and to feel, special. As much as our politicians might think they are judged on their intelligence, experience ...

He’s just acquired another one of course in former BBC producer Craig Oliver but the consensus (and it’s early days so far) is that Oliver is useless. More noted for the array of technology he carries with him than any ...

Well it’s not looking good with the Arab League, Russia, China and India already saying that France, the UK and the US have gone too far, too fast in blitzing Libya with cruise missiles. And the UK and the US ...