May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. - Alastair Campbell
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
- Alastair Campbell
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. - Alastair Campbell
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.… - Alastair Campbell
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.…
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. - Alastair Campbell
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. - Alastair Campbell
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of … - Alastair Campbell
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of …
I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo… - Alastair Campbell
I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo…
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. - Alastair Campbell
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously … - Alastair Campbell
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously …
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