Victor Meldrew and the perfect metaphor for the Brexit dog’s dinner that we should be able to reject
Well, that was a lively start to the morning, out with my daughter Grace (always feisty) to do...
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Author: Alastair Campbell
GLAD ALL OVER – HOW YOU CAN JOIN ME IN THE BIGGEST DEPRESSION/ANXIETY RESEARCH PROJECT EVER
How cool that the latest big mental health research project is called GLAD. And how pleased I am...
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The more sensible Cabinet ministers are looking towards the inevitable public inquiry IF Brexit happens
Liam Fox burbling on about Philip Hammond on the BBC reminded me I had forgotten to post last...
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The book that helps you better understand Brexit and Rees-Mogg – part 2
My column in this week’s New European, subscription to which is an essential part of the...
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The most important book you have never heard of, may explain Rees-Mogg love of hard Brexit
Before I tell you about an important book I have recently read (my piece for this week’s New...
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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
@BBCSimonJack @EdConwaySky Try to understand this from a Japanese perspective. It’s a loss of face to withdraw from a commitment. Not done lightly. The exception is where one has been misled or lied to. So the ‘broken promise’ about a Hard Brexit permits decisions on economic grounds to dominate.
A No Deal Brexit means - the evidence says - drug shortages. Stockpiling will only work for a few weeks. And the measures Government has put in place to deal with shortages are unlawful and risk patients' health.
Leaving without a deal will put lives at risk - we're not prepared
Director and founder of Good Law Project
www.crowdjustice.com
A helluva new Exocet from Sir John Major this evening at a speech in Glasgow. Says UKIP-ers are "hollowing out" the Conservative Party, and the ERG are "zealots" and not real Tories (1/2)
"I make no apology for saying that leaving the EU without a deal would be a catastrophe for British farming."
National Farmers' Union President Minette Batters says a no-deal Brexit is "the stuff of nightmares".
