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Alastair Campbell
Personal blog · alastaircampbell.orgpoliticswriting
Alastair Campbell's personal blog at alastaircampbell.org covers politics and writing. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alastair Campbell's blog for posts on depression, including a 2013 response to a Stephen Fry quote, and a 2018 post about a book on Brexit.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Home page of Alastair Campbell's blog containing his podcasts, books, blog posts and social media posts. A great way of seeing everything in one place.
What Hacker News says?
Just for those curious about the Fry quote, I think it might originate from his blog, himself quoting Alastair Campbell. At the very least there's a nice reference to it, and I'm happily crawling along the links enjoying it. http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/06/24/only-the-lonely/ http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/2013/06/10/response-to-...
Comment linking /blog/2013/06/10/response-to-stephen-fry-suicide-interview-shows-attitudes-are-slowly-changing/
on “Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation”Submitted The case for self-doubt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFishermen, like people who thought that they would have 350mm more per week for the NHS, were useful idiots and served theirs purpose. It was clear what the remainers voted for, but the pro Brexit voters were a very heterogeneous bunch. So it was always clear that the majority will be disappointed in the end. One of the real reasons of Brexit: https://alastaircampbell.org/2018/08/the-book-that-helps-you... The other…
Comment linking /2018/08/the-book-that-helps-you-better-understand-brexit-and-rees-mogg-part-2/
on “UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal”