Remembering Charles Kennedy – we could do with more like him today!
BBC ALBA broadcast a fine one hour documentary last night, about the late lamented Charles...
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Feb 24, 2021 | Articles |
BBC ALBA broadcast a fine one hour documentary last night, about the late lamented Charles...
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Feb 12, 2021 | Articles |
My column in this week’s New European ponders the question why the media gives Boris Johnson...
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Feb 10, 2021 | Articles |
If you’re not interested in football, or more specifically football fandom, look away now,...
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Jan 6, 2021 | Articles |
What with Covid and Brexit, Burnley’s game being postponed at the weekend, and my local Lido now...
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Dec 28, 2020 | Articles |
This is one of my longer posts, dear reader. Not quite as long as Dominic Cummings’ blogs,...
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"Superbly readable, supremely useful. Unflinching, clear-eyed, honest, raw and revealing, it may be the most important achievement of Alastair Campbell’s vivid and varied life. This book could save lives." – STEPHEN FRY
LIVING BETTER is Alastair Campbell’s honest, moving and life affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own childhood, family and other relationships, and examines the impact of his professional and political life on himself and those around him. But it also lays bare his relentless quest to understand depression not just through his own life but through different treatments. Every bit as direct and driven, clever and candid as he is, this is a book filled with pain, but also hope - he examines how his successes have been in part because of rather than despite his mental health problems - and love. His partner of forty years, Fiona Millar, writes a moving afterword on how she too has learned to live with his depression.
Depression is the predominant mental health problem worldwide - it is estimated that 1 in 6 people in the past week experienced a common mental health problem and major depression is thought to be the second leading cause of disability worldwide. LIVING BETTER is a call to arms and an extraordinary memoir in one compelling and inspiring narrative. This is a book that really could save lives.
"One can only hope that LIVING BETTER provokes a far wider and more honest understanding of the condition" – JON SNOW
Put that man in charge of OFCOM ... such foresight
The Daily Mail has always been at the blunt edge hasn't it?
Good piece on Covid mental health troubles ahead, and how the govt is missing the opportunity to take a new and necessary approach. We need a mental health service, not a struggling mental illness crisis service https://www.ft.com/content/88c8f248-acde-42cb-bc2a-bb9a95c031d9
The Finnish city aiming for carbon neutrality in just four years https://buff.ly/3bE5yuP
Bet you thought it was live!! About to pre-record tomorrow’s Big Questions with @NickyAACampbell - talking alcohol and religion in lockdown. Separately I think.