Cameron’s views on Labour leadership might be worth heeding
Cameron reportedly wants Ed Miliband as Labour leader. Black propaganda, or a genuine view born of thinking the situation through? I think the latter
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Aug 29, 2010 | Diaries, Politics |
Cameron reportedly wants Ed Miliband as Labour leader. Black propaganda, or a genuine view born of thinking the situation through? I think the latter
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Aug 27, 2010 | Education, Media |
When it comes to reporting exam results, editors do not let the facts get in the way of stories to justify their own (private) choices. But the truth is State schools are improving and private schools, despite the massive advantages, are not.
Read MorePosted by Alastair Campbell | Aug 26, 2010 | Articles |
After a few blog-free weeks, welcome to my new site, which I hope you like; and many thanks to the French health service for looking after my daughter – and that includes those much-maligned managers!
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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.
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Ok. On the day the (probable though still a long way to go) next German Chancellor is chosen ( @ArminLaschet Tree of the Day is a choice between my Hampstead Heath tree this morning and @UtaJacques in snowy Freiburg around the same time. Rt for 🇬🇧 like for 🇩🇪
@campbellclaret Hi Alastair, would really appreciate if you could share this crowdfunding page for your local competitive swimming club in Burnley
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/burnley-bobcats-swimming-club-covid-appeal
A club close to my heart, and a really vital assesst to Burnley and its surrounding towns. 😃🏊♂️🤞
The whole debate about whether Johnson should or shouldn’t have read the EU deal is absurd. The question isn’t whether he’s read or not; it is whether he understands the content and its implications. The problem is he doesn’t - remember that “there are no non-tariff barriers”?
Clips like this should be repeatedly shown on UK news channels & used by every journalist when interviewing Government ministers. I’m sure #Marr will play it tomorrow when interviewing Dominic Raab https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1350198471500963840