The truth about that wedding: research by MPG Media Contacts in Marketing shows that only 26% of men will follow Kate and William's nuptials on the day, against 54% of women. So expect a glut of TV advertising with a heavy female bias... more
We can't turn the clock back on The West Wing and all its power and glamour - people taking government communications jobs want to be the story... more
The serial Cherie-slasher is loose again. A new volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries reveals that Madame Blair was "obsessed" by money in No 10 and jealous of an attractive aide to her husband... more
Prince William was asked to walk behind Princess Diana's coffin because of fears Prince Charles might be attacked if he was alone, Alastair Campbell claimed in extracts from his diaries... more
In the air: The Observer went to court in Paris on Monday to defend itself against fashion designer Stefano Pilati who alleges the paper defamed him by using a quotation from him about black models in a wider article about controversial attitudes to race... more
Alastair Campbell brands the Government's refusal to field a Cabinet Minister on Question Time 'absolutely pathetic' after No10 tried to have him replaced by a shadow minister... more
In The Air: The word is that a Twitter campaign by Labour sympathisers is behind most of Ofcom's complaints about Sky News political editor Adam Boulton and his spat with Alastair Campbell... more
Video: Alastair Campbell questions whether Sky News's political editor Adam Boulton can stay in his job after the pair had a furious on-air row... more
Commentary: For maybe the last time all Labour's great spinners of 1997 were united, but the cocky swagger came from the Tory would-be Malcolm Tuckers... more
New Labour has been worn away like a man carrying the burden of decades of struggle. The mantra "Change, or more of the same", will be the key to the next election... more
Downing Street and Alastair Campbell should never have been allowed to play a role in the infamous government dossier on Iraq’s WMD, Tony Blair’s former Cabinet Secretary admits... more
Tony Blair's former spin chief Alastair Campbell told the head of Britain's armed forces to be less negative about the Iraq war, it has emerged... more
Now I know that the sight of Alastair Campbell is enough to put some people off their breakfast but it's quite something that his presence for a mere week at the New Statesman should unleash such a rip-roaring feud.... more
Perhaps we should not be so surprised by the news that Alastair Campbell has become a novelist at the age of 50. After all, as a Downing Street spin doctor, he was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit. To be published in November, his debut, All in the Mind, is the story of a psychiatrist, his patients and family and "the pressures they bring to bear on each other'' over a long weekend... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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