How music lifts the soul more than just about anything, and my pride at inspiring new song by my favourite band
I am 62 next week. But feel a lot younger. One of the reasons is that life can still throw up...
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Author: Alastair Campbell
Unleadership – a new word that sadly sums up Britain in these worrying times
Though some make a case for Winston Churchill and Elizabeth the First as the greatest ever Briton,...
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Humiliation for May and the UK; hope that the momentum to a People’s Vote is unstoppable
Here is the full text of an article I have done for The Guardian, on yesterday’s EU Summit...
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May has handed real power to Corbyn. He can use it to cement no deal, win the long extension we need, and secure a referendum
– a piece I have written for the Daily Telegraph this morning, many of whose readers will...
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Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume 7
From Crash to Defeat
by
Alastair Campbell
Caught in the no man’s land between being a key figure in Downing Street and the relative anonymity of the world outside politics, Alastair Campbell finds himself being torn in several directions as this latest volume of diaries opens. Having succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown wants Campbell at his side. Campbell resists, flooding his reservoir of guilt as a general election looms and Brown’s indecision and fluctuating moods suggest the Labour administration is seriously threatened by the Tory ‘posh boy’, David Cameron.
Soon Campbell is earning not only praise but big money from motivational speaking and writing novels which darkly reflect the mood swings that continue to concern both him and his family. Serious journalism across platforms old and new puts him back in the public eye and together with live appearances and a love of sport – his enduring love affair with Burnley Football Club still smoulders – sees him board a celebrity merry-go-round that often leaves him far from his comfort zone.
With politics constantly tugging his sleeve, he eventually returns to the front line to marshal a party in disarray. The intensity of the months leading up to 6 May 2010 is as dramatic as any screenplay, with Campbell chronicling Brown’s struggle to win over a disillusioned nation and then his dignified departure from the main stage. For Campbell, another chapter closes. So what next?
From Twitter
Grim reading for #North as @cbicarolyn @CBItweets highlights No Deal could cost #NorthWest £20bn - that is double health & education budgets combined.
Why there must be @peoplesvote_uk
No-deal Brexit 'could cost region £20bn'
The forecast is double the region's spending on health and education but the CBI denies 'scaremongering'.
www.bbc.co.uk
On way to Edinburgh TV festival to debate BBC QuestionTime editor about who gets telly time..but she cancelled & seems no-one else is available 🤔 But in neat bit of timing, here’s @CNN’s great @JohnAvlon asking me about Arron Banks & threats to journalism
Meet the journalist who inspired 'The Great Hack' - CNN Video
Netflix's popular new documentary "The Great Hack" focuses on how data company Cambridge Analytica utilized personal information from Facebook users t...
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This really is worth a watch. Stripped of the usual Johnson waffle, this is a used car salesman who knows no one is buying his sales pitch for the car.
BBC Politics on Twitter
“Boris Johnson accuses EU of being "a bit negative" about prospects of reaching #Brexit deal. The UK PM says he believes "we'll get there" and h...
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"Brexit has turned into a hostage situation. Boris Johnson is the kidnapper, Ireland is the captive and the backstop is the ransom."