The ten things you need to know on Sunday 5 May 2013... 1) DEPUTY COMMONS SPEAKER ARRESTED FOR RAPE It's Nigel Evans MP. "Top Tory arrested f...

The degree to which Blair's time in office was merely a continuation of Thatcherism has long been hotly debated, and it is a subject that has been returned to often over the past week.

Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has accused David Cameron of deliberately politicising the death of Margaret Thatcher for partisan g...

“I’ve long since given up trying to persuade people it was the right decision,” Tony Blair says now. But this does not mean the former prime min...

Spin is an anachronistic, meaningless and negative term. So with the world starting to recognise the long-term value of good communications, isn't it time we put the spin to bed for good?

So what can our British political leaders draw from 'donkey politics.'

Tony Blair's former press chief Alastair Campbell may stand for election as a Labour MP in the next general election. The former journalist, who wo...

Tony Blair's former chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell met his fictional doppelganger Malcolm Tucker - also known as Peter Capaldi from The Thick Of ...

Miliband has learnt one lesson from Blair's government - admiration of markets and a fear of state involvement went too far. He must also learn a second - a modernising, clear and focused direction for the country is key for a successful opposition and government. Cameron has learnt neither, and is ready and waiting to be beaten.

Alastair Campbell discussed leaving Downing Street to work for News International with the then-chairman of the company, Les Hinton, at the height of ...

Alastair Campbell's latest diaries are out - and it's a bumper edition. Covering the time between January 2011 and August 2003, when Blair's former sp...

At a personal level, I don't think I have much in common with David Cameron at all, whose life and background is closer to the play POSH than it is to the values I hold, and the background I come from, a different middle class to the middle class he purports to be.

Maybe it's just my over-sensitivity, but the mooted return of Tony Blair to British politics strikes me as mind-bendingly peculiar.

I'd like to begin with a point of clarification. When I previously wrote in defence of dangerous thought, I should have laid out a caveat that disting...