The View from Gaza | Palestinian Ambassador to the UK - Husam Zomlot

Oct 18, 2023 | What's it like to live in Gaza? What are the key differences between the PLO, the PA, Fatah and Hamas? How far away are we from the diplomatic high point of the Oslo Accords? On today's episode of The Rest Is Politics, Rory and Alastair are joined by Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK.

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Related documentary: Balfour: Seeds of Discord.

Boris Johnson Resigns

Jun 10, 2023 | In an emergency podcast, Rory and Alastair react to the news that Boris Johnson is standing down as a Conservative MP with immediate effect after an investigation into the Partygate scandal found he misled parliament and recommended a suspension from the House of Commons.

Alastair Campbell: Tory MPs 'Need to Find a Spine'

Jul 6, 2022 Conservative MPs who support Boris Johnson are "propping up a crook, a liar and a charlatan" says former Downing Street Director of Communications under Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell.

He said that Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak had realised that their reputations were being tarnished the longer they served in a Johnson government, and that their only option was to step down.


Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a clown, and it is high time that he along with his circus leave London town! He is not only a clown, but a buffoon too. He is dangerous. He has already done untold damage to this nation, both in terms of economics and in terms of social cohesion. All because he insisted on getting a job he is unqualified to do, and ill-equipped for.

The man is without any understanding of economics. He is also without principle. He has screwed around all his life, leaving a trail of devastation behind him. The UK economy is no exception.

One truly has to ask oneself some serious questions when one is talking about a man so puffed up and self-absorbed that he grew up believing that he would one day become “king of the world”! Go figure!

However, instead of becoming king of the world, he had to settle for second best: becoming prime minister. And what a mess he is making of the job!

De Pfeffel’s antics re Brexit, along with his cohorts’, have ensured that this once proud United Kingdom, admired throughout the world especially for its integrity, has been turned into the Disunited Kingdom, ready to break up in a heartbeat, and having lost so much respect throughout the world.

To our European brethren and ‘Sistren’, BoJo has become a laughing stock. He is not the admired man he thinks he is. So, it really is time for him to consider his position in the interests of the nation and its people. – © Mark Alexander

Partygate: Tory MPs Are 'Undermining Our Democracy' - Alastair Campbell

May 25, 2022 • If we ignore the findings of the Sue Gray report, will be saying "goodbye to the democratic system that we have", says former Downing St director of communications Alastair Campbell.

He spoke to Sky's Kay Burley, as No 10 braces itself for the publication of the report.

First though, he responded to the primary school shooting in Texas.


BoJo is a liar and a clown! I despise that man! I would NEVER vote for him. And I speak as a one-time, life-long Conservative voter! After Brexit, I shall NEVER vote Tory again! First the Tories 'shat' on Maggie; this time, they have 'shat' on the voters. Get rid of that plonker! – © Mark

George Osborne 'I’ve Sat Down and Had a Drink with Theresa May Since All of This' | British GQ

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Alastair Campbell vs The Archbishop of Canterbury: Alastair Does God | GQ Politics | British GQ

GQ’s arch interrogator Alastair Campbell finally does God, as he meets the man leading the Church of England, Justin Welby, to discuss the Queen's death, gay sex and battling depression.

Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair: Will Corbyn Become Prime Minister? | GQ Politics | British GQ

Tony Blair, the three-term Labour prime minister, is returning to fight for progressive politics in Britain and around the world.

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Alastair Campbell Savages Mail Editor Over Miliband Slur

THE GUARDIAN: Newspaper's deputy editor, Jon Steafel, stands by attack on Labour leader's father in heated debate on Newsnight


The row between Ed Miliband and the Daily Mail continued on Tuesday night as a senior executive from the newspaper refused to apologise for its attack on the Labour leader's late father but admitted that publishing a photograph of his gravestone with a pun about him being a "grave socialist" was an error of judgment.

In an interview on BBC2's Newsnight, the paper's deputy editor, Jon Steafel, refused to retract the paper's savage attack on Ralph Miliband in an article in Saturday's edition headlined: The man who hated Britain.

Steafel's appearance was an unprecedented public outing for a Mail executive. The paper's editor pursues a strict policy of being an "outsider" who believes his journalism can speak for itself and refuses to publicly pronounce on his paper over the decades he has been at the helm.

He said the piece was based on Miliband's public views and was justified. "Ralph Miliband's views were spread widely. His views on British institutions, from our schools to our royal family to our military, to our universities to the church. What he said was, he felt that all of those things were bad aspects, were unfortunate aspects of British life," Steafel said.

He said Miliband's father's views expressed in his "writings, his diaries, his books, his speeches", combined with his Marxist ideology, showed he was "very antipathetic to the views of a lot of British people". He added: "We thought it was reasonable to highlight those views." » | Lisa O’Carroll | Wednesday, October 02, 2013

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Daily Mail Deputy Editor Defends Miliband Father Profile, But Concedes 'Error of Judgement' Over Grave Image

The Daily Mail's deputy editor defended its profile of Ed Miliband's father in a heated exchange with Alastair Campbell on Newsnight, but conceded the paper made an 'error of judgement' in using an image of Ralph Miliband's grave in online coverage.

Read the Telegraph article here | Rhiannon Williams | Wednesday, October 02, 2013
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