Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power (The Alastair Campbell Diaries, 1)

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Alastair's Turf Moor Diaries". football.fanhouse.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 December 2009 . Retrieved 30 December 2009.

In August 2016 Campbell's older brother, Donald, who had schizophrenia, died at the age of 62 due to complications resulting from his illness. Campbell has talked extensively about how Donald, the Principal's official bagpiper at Glasgow University and a competitor in high-level Piobaireachd competitions, had inspired him to fight for better mental health services and understanding, and to become the ambassador for several mental health charities. [80] [81] He entered into a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar, on 30 March 2021, after being together for 42 years. [92] The couple have two sons and a daughter, the comedian Grace Campbell. [93] [94] Stage and screen portrayals [ edit ] POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, changing the course of both the Bush presidency and the Blair premiership. Elgot, Jessica (29 May 2019). "Tom Watson calls Alastair Campbell's expulsion 'spiteful' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Ryan, Anya (5 August 2022). "Comedian Grace Campbell, 'I don't give a f**k, I get that from my dad' ". Evening Standard . Retrieved 17 February 2023.In July 2019, in the week Boris Johnson became prime minister, Campbell penned a 3,500-word open letter to Jeremy Corbyn saying he no longer wished to be re-admitted to the party despite legal advice saying he would win a court case against his expulsion. He called on Corbyn to step down and cited his "failure" on Brexit, antisemitism, broader policy and "above all the failure to develop and execute a strategy". The story was broken in The Guardian and the full letter published in The New European. Corbyn said he was "disappointed", prompting Campbell to ask why he had been expelled. [76] [77] Alastair Campbell defends 'every word' of Iraq dossier". BBC News. BBC. 12 January 2011. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010 . Retrieved 29 January 2010. In March 2022 he launched a new podcast, The Rest is Politics, discussing politics home and abroad with former Tory cabinet minister Rory Stewart. It became an instant hit, rising by week 2 to the top of the Apple UK podcast charts, and leading to calls that he and Stewart form a new centre ground party. [53] [54] Exclusive interview: Alastair Campbell – 'families aren't equipped for mental illness' ". www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk. Mental Health Today. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017 . Retrieved 9 November 2017. Campbell has described himself as a pro-faith atheist, and his statement "we don't do God" is one of his more repeated soundbites. However, he was asked in late 2017 by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, whom Campbell had interviewed for GQ, to contribute to his book on the meaning of Christmas.

Devine, Darren (28 October 2010). "Alastair Campbell on his battle with depression". Western Mail. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014 . Retrieved 17 November 2013. In May 2016, the International Business Times announced that Campbell had joined it as a columnist. [47]Hoggart, Simon (26 July 2003). "Sooner or later, Campbell was going to lose it". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010 . Retrieved 19 July 2007.

In 2007, he appeared on Comic Relief Does the Apprentice as project manager, having several clashes with Piers Morgan including his comment of "again?" when Morgan got fired, which went viral. [30] The military and the civil service both asked for more clarity on whether force would be legal. Goldsmith did so but failed to provide written advice explaining his decision. Sir John Scarlett Goldsmith comes out badly from the Chilcot report – maybe second only to Blair in terms of damage to his reputation. Winter Walks". bbc.co.uk. 30 November 2021. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021.

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Campbell is one of the few to emerge relatively unscathed from the report. Far from attempting to “sex up” up the dossier, Campbell comes across as one of the voices of reason. East, Ben (14 September 2013). "My Name Is... by Alastair Campbell – review". The Observer. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014 . Retrieved 15 February 2014. Final Say: Alastair Campbell to answer questions on Reddit". The Independent. 19 September 2018. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018 . Retrieved 11 October 2018.

Campbell appeared as a mentor in the BBC Two series The Speaker in April 2009, offering his advice on persuasive speaking. [32] Chairman of the joint intelligence committee, the umbrella group for the intelligence agencies, 2001-04 The report heavily criticises the Ministry of Defence for sending troops into Iraq without proper equipment, such as vehicles tough enough to withstand explosive devices and sufficient helicopters for transporting troops around. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, with their children Ariel and Eden, outside Kensington and Chelsea Register Office, London, after becoming one of the first heterosexual couples to register for a civil partnership. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Straw also identified the need for a “Plan B” for the UK not to participate in military action in the event that the government failed to secure a majority in the parliamentary Labour party for military action.Horowitz, Anthony (31 January 2010). "Review: Alastair Campbell's novel Maya". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010 . Retrieved 24 February 2010. You could fairly say of Campbell's period of tenure that it only accelerated a dance of death between media and government that had been going on in Britain since Suez. And yet the attitudes that dance has fostered - pathological arrogance on the part of the press, neurotic secretiveness from government - have done little to advance the democratic process. The Blair Years is essentially the account of an administration that, imagining it could control the domestic agenda, found instead that events from abroad could overwhelm it. The virtues of pride, aggression and solidarity forged in the heat of New Labour's difficult evolution proved pitifully inadequate to contain a neoconservative ally far more ruthless than itself. Facing the challenging question of how the west - and more importantly, the world - should deal with the murderous regime in Iraq, it was no longer enough to be on-message. Sadly for the lives of so many, it turns out you had to be right as well. Campbell wanted source revealed". BBC News. London: BBC. 22 September 2003. Archived from the original on 2 February 2011 . Retrieved 22 September 2013. The report notes that Hoon – early in 2002, before Blair went to see Bush in Texas in April – identified Iran as being a bigger problem for the UK than Iraq in terms of weapons of mass destruction proliferation. But he did not follow through on this and joined the rush to war in Iraq. Hans Blix