And the moon rises
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
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And the moon rises
My holiday begins. Ends 8pm
🗞️ Our latest issue is on sale - Toxic Ties Featuring Matthew d'Ancona, Gail Crowther & @kcmanc.bsky.social, Lynne O'Donnell, Matt Muir, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and more Subscribe for £1: buff.ly/wNY6XQs
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A - the Downing St shake up; Farage free speech hypocrisy but also what makes him a good communicator; a plea to Israel to stop killing journalists; is AI rotting our brains; how to get kids reading for pleasure alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/444-...
Tree of the Day
On the day @thenewworldmag.bsky.social has been banned from his conference this weekend ….
Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events. @bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets. @femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.
Someone needs to stage an intervention at the right wing rags … they’re really not well
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social on the Xi-Putin-Modi love in, a remarkable survey on business leaders in Singapore showing signs of US decline under Trump, ASEAN, and trouble in Indonesia and Thailand alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/443-...
Tree of the Day
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Norway PM Jonas Gahr Store - on relations with U.K. post Brexit, and Trump Term 2 (with the tricky issue of the Nobel!) Plus how Norway built its wealth fund and switched to tech, and more. Nice guy and very smart alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/151-...
Here we go. Can’t believe how many United fans are saying they hope we win #utc
First ever Tree of the Day from inside an airport. Changi, Singapore
Tree of the (yester)Day which I forgot to post. The one on the left. Narrow win over the one on the right
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A- Trump latest steps to authoritarianism; latest on Israeli man made famine in Gaza; Carney in Ukraine; more on Lib Dems; and how Strictly is latest victim of Beeb Reform obsession - bosh alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/442-...
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - flags, boats, hotels and the media’s easy ride for Farage; plus Bosnia, where life feels better for many than it used to but the politics remains very tricky alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/441-...
Tree of the Day. Singapore
Tree of the Day. huge trunk hidden
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING - @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social Part 2 alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/150-...
Tree of the Day
Tree of the Day Sarajevo. Pic 1 winner - third one along before the willow. Pic 2 came close - love Gaza flag hanging bike combo
Tree of the Day pic 1, third along before the willow. Pic 2 came close. Love the hanging bike and Haza bike combo. All Sarajevo
Packed pub in Sarajevo ready for the Game of the Day. #BurnleyBigInBosnia
Tennis legend Goran Ivanišević supporting the Youth Sport Games. Looms as fit as ever
Putting the football world to rights with UEFA boss Alexsander Čeferin in Sarajevo
Obviously nothing will ever compete with Maradona (never talk about it) but Karembeu Karanka Matic and Smicer not bad company for a five a side training session
Team lunch over. Coach with his two best centre backs for back of the team bus tactical talk. Vidic keen for some robust Balkan political debate
Tree of the Day, Sarajevo, just outside the entrance to the venue for tonight’s launch of Youth Sport Games. Pleased to hear Nemanja Matic, Aitor Karanka and Christian Karembeu have joined the squad. Vidic has decided to play chess instead
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New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A - @rory-stewart.bsky.social goes in hard on Lib Dems and Corbyn who despite his beautiful ears would be a “terrible PM”; is Trump preparing to rig/deny mid terms?; cuts to education in prisons; Somaliland; and the terrible truth about book blurbs 1/2
Tree of the Day. It was here first. And it’s not moving
Got to be. Surely !!
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Trying to make sense of the extraordinary day of White House meetings on Ukraine. And meanwhile in Gaza … alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/439-...
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Zelensky at the White House | Can Trump Be Trusted on Peace? Alastair and Rory break down Zelensky's meeting in the Oval Office - including if European leaders appeasing Trump is bad in the long term and why JD Vance was so silent this time round. Link in the replies 👇
Tree of the Day award today shared by two pairs pix 1/2. Run close by pic 3 but I think the flowers are what made that one special. Pic 4 General shot edge of Black Forest. Spoilt for choice when it comes to trees
So hard to pick a Tree of the Day when you’re in the Black Forest. But I love that they’ve got a few wind turbines in there. And love that the local town hall has the Ukraine flag flying in solidarity with Zelensky ahead of US meetings
Part 1 of new @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social As @rory-stewart.bsky.social says at end of Part 2 (next week or immediately for TRIP+ members) he had never heard her so open and reflective. alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/149-...
What was surely one of the greatest Test series in history, between England and India, unfolded. It has left me feeling so sorry for people who don’t get it, and so superior to countries that never will. ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Where were you ?
If you missed @therestpolitics.bsky.social LIVE on the Alaska Trump Putin summit catch up here alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/438-...
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Bonus episode @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING - Irfaan Ali, president of Guyana. A major oil find has made this the fastest growing economy in the world. How to match that with a passion for diversity in a country 85pc rainforest? Small country, big character, leading a fascinating country.1/2
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A - the politics of immigration, Corbyn new party, a young centrist’s despair, the young and geopolitics, German shift on Israel, and the first 100 year old president? alastaircampbell.org
Still????
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social looking ahead to the Trump Putin not Zelensky meeting in Alaska, latest horrors in Gaza and the fallout from Palestine Action protests alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/436-...
Part 2 @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Jeremy Hunt … it’s Truss-time! alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/147-...
With thanks to Neil Atkinson - Tree of the Day, Durham
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social : "I suspect the reason [#Trump] loathed #Sturgeon is that she did not react as he wished to his green ink letters complaining about windmills near his [#Scotland] golf course." www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam...
CJ Egan Riley about to come on for @omofficiel.bsky.social I reckon the sixth Burnley player to play here. Waddle. Steven. Barton. Fletcher. Mears. Have I missed any @dlrbrts.bsky.social shirt a gift from OM president Pablo Longoria.
What Trump’s business holiday showed is that as a tribe, current world leaders have essentially decided that they cannot change his man-child narcissistic personality ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Having a sport and culture day. Not in that order. This morning Cezanne exhibition Aix en Provence and ce soir @omofficiel.bsky.social v @astonvillaofficial.bsky.social friendly in Marseille. Cezanne did paint a lot more than trees but pic 1 is my Tree of the Day.
Tree of the Day. Very neighbourly
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Rory returns from Colombia and debriefs Alastair on his travels - from navigating former guerrilla strongholds to seeing the legacy of the cartels up close. We're just glad he made it back in one piece. ALSO: The rise of Palantir in the public sector. Link in the replies 👇
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A - “one in one out” deal; massive growth of wildfires; worries over changes at Samaritans; worries over Palantir and German policing; lots on Colombia after @rory-stewart.bsky.social visit there alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/435-...
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 @rory-stewart.bsky.social is back with @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social! They're discussing: why countries are now recognising the Palestinian state, what Starmer should have done, and is a two-state solution still viable? Link in the replies 👇
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social in which @rory-stewart.bsky.social and I discuss the changing debate on Palestine recognition, more Trump tariff mayhem and whether Starmer should communicate more like Trump! alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/434-...
Where?
The president's trip to Scotland proves there's a real harm in not holding his actions to account ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
eMerging Leader Joe Woof features on the lastest episode of @therestpolitics.bsky.social podcast with @kattybkay.bsky.social and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, posing a powerful question👇🏼 Listen to the full podcast - open.spotify.com/episode/7Drx... @juergenmaier.co.uk @achimhk.bsky.social
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Jeremy Hunt thought it was a prank call... ...instead it was Liz Truss asking him to become Chancellor. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory Stewart interview Sir Jeremy Hunt, discussing a tumultuous time for the Tory government and the questions around its future. Link in the replies 👇
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New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING - a very frank assessment of his own life and times, the rise and fall of the Conservative Party, and of the current government by cabinet veteran Jeremy Hunt. Whether you’re Tory, Labour or neither well worth a listen 1/2
Couple of years ago this part of France badly hit by forest fire. Tree of the Day this lone survivor. But great to see growth returning around it
Loved @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social's response to young optimist Sam's question in this @therestpolitics.bsky.social episode on whether hope is a weakness or responsibility: "I often say to Rory, where I get my hope is talking to young people." ❤️ #hope #politics #podcast #TheRestIsPolitics
Rory's away. But the explainers must go on... Alastair on Zelenskyy's anti-corruption faux pas, summed up in 45 seconds.
This may be the way to deal with Trump’s performative BS. @liberation.fr giving a single paragraph on page 16 to the Medvedev nuclear show
Why is #r4today promoting a new right wing ‘think-tank’ having never reported on the Tufty Club’s dubious funding and purposes? Oh. It’s a Farage fan club, you say? That explains it.
Tree of the Day
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 This Question Time, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @restispoliticsus.bsky.social co-host Katty Kay answer your burning questions on: - Trump and the Epstein Files - Zelenskyy's faux pas - And are there any optimists left? Link in the replies 👇
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New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A- Epstein, Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell; why men need to talk and do more to stop violence against women; Zelensky faux pas on corruption; the addiction economy; and @kattybkay.bsky.social exoneration of my and @scaramucci.bsky.social giant egos 1/2
Tree of the Day
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social on Gaza, Trump in Scotland, trade deals and more - @rory-stewart.bsky.social having a week off so am joined by @kattybkay.bsky.social from our sister US podcast alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/432-...
What does it take for Trump to start caring about the children in Gaza? Spoiler: it's not empathy, it's optics. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social is joined by @restispoliticsus.bsky.social co-host Katty Kay to unpack this - and what it takes to survive a meeting with president. Link in the replies 👇
Today. France!
Same tree four angles. Not classically beautiful but what a character. Tree of the Day
Tree of the Day
There are a lot of books in the world.
Part 2 @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with @garyseconomics.bsky.social - on the myth of meritocracy and why he wants to change our whole approach to tax and economics alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/145-...
Tree of the Day
Watched it!! Interesting stuff in there
Tree of the Day. Two angles
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q and A - things getting worse in Gaza, violence in Syria, elections in Japan, trusted adult guarantee here, memories of my time with the B&I Lions 2005 alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/431-...
Tree of the Day, Lancs
Thank you.
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - how much damage can Epstein, Murdoch Musk do to Trump? What I thought of Epstein when I met him. Why @rory-stewart.bsky.social has changed his mind on AI. Why I am celebrating the giving of the vote to 16/17 year olds alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/430-...
Tree of the Day. Look at that base!
Yes and no.
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with @garyseconomics.bsky.social alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/144-...
Tree of the Day, whichever way you look at it
Tree of the Day
@richardwatts01.bsky.social don’t worry re your coat. Been found
Most beautiful country on earth day 3 Used to enjoy my Scotland v Ireland beautiful scenery contests but honestly it doesn’t even get close (unless the Irish govt give me a passport in which case Ireland wins hands down and I will be tourism ambassador for free)
Bonus episode @therestpolitics.bsky.social - answering your questions on our four part mini series on JD Vance alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/how-...
Tree of the Day, Loch Arkaig. Take your pick between the two on the brow of the hill. I am going for the one on the left
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social has a couple of age appropriate books for children on understanding politics. Worth getting for kids you know..
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q&A - continuing the debate on Israel and genocide; Macron immigration deal; Spanish scandals; my ten star review for Live Aid Musical and why we need more Bob Geldofs alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/429-...
Love these guys - gay couple who own Keighley Cougars rugby league team hear me and @adamhillscomedy.bsky.social talking on C4 re how war is harming RL in Ukraine. Ryan and Kaue only go and get in touch with Artur manager national team and go to Kyiv with kit for their teams
This is not just Tree of the Day. It is Tree of the Century. Skipinnish Oak in the Highlands. Thank you @wtscotsocial.bsky.social and Woodland Trust for inviting me to feature my favourite tree. So glad it won UK Tree of the Year and helped promote my favourite folk band too!
