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Oh, it’s the Shane story at Lloyds...

05.11.09
On BBC news, Lloyds Banking Group’s in-house PR Shane O’Riordain says: “Lloyds is a strong, well-capitalised bank.” ... more

The Thick of It returns - but which hapless minister is Rebecca Front portraying?

27.10.09
Voters delight, politicians duck for cover: The Thick of It is back. Never can there have been a better time to take apart the preening control freakery of the classe politique... more

Stephen Fry's delightful night

19.10.09
Natascha McElhone and Nigella Lawson were at the Criterion Theatre last night to hear Stephen Fry in conversation with Alan Yentob.... more

Iraq backdrop to Alastair Campbell's choice

14.10.09
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No 10 turns to Alastair Campbell and Gould to advise inexperienced election team

14.09.09
Gordon Brown is forced to fall back on big guns from the Blair years after failing to appoint a full-time election supremo... more

Bloggers add to the gaiety of the political scene

04.09.09
“All bloggers are gay”. This magisterial judgment, proffered to me by a fellow Westminster journalist not very long ago, summed up the way the mainstream media used to view the upstart “blogosphere”. ... more

Political spin is having to change in internet age

22.07.09
The disgraced former Downing Street spin doctor, Damian McBride, broke his silence on Monday by giving interviews in print and on radio in an obvious attempt to rescue his reputation ... more

Sporting Miscellanies

02.06.09
Football: Mystery enshrouds the boos that serenaded Kofi Annan at the FA Cup final... more

Yes men to blame for the gravy train

01.06.09
How often have supposed shareholder revolts on directors' pay turned into a damp squib? Very. Much of the blame can be laid at the door of the institutional shareholders. ... more

Mother said 'I don’t want you in that dirty world of politics'

22.05.09
This, says 23-year-old Georgia Gould, was the toughest, most shattering experience of her life. She did not see it coming, she admits, because at first nobody paid much attention to her attempt to win selection for the soon-to-be-vacated Labour seat of Erith and Thamesmead... more

The age of hardball

18.05.09
People skills and being nice are fine in the good times but now the bully is back...... more

Football Talk

14.05.09
Football: Could Arsenal's mascot be set for a surprise England call-up?... more

This girl is not good for Labour – or for London

20.04.09
By all accounts, Georgia Gould is bright, determined and personable. She cannot help it that her dad, Lord Gould, also fathered New Labour. It seems clear, too, that she has been the target of a Damian McBride-style briefing campaign. ... more

Labour battle over safe seat candidate

17.04.09
A Labour civil war escalated over who should contest a safe seat in London at the next general election... more

F***! – New film In the Loop restores swearing to an art form

27.03.09
In the Loop, the film extension of The Thick of It, isn't released for three weeks yet but it is already making waves... more

Labour peer Philip Gould blasts 'smear campaign' against daughter

26.03.09
A Labour peer and one of Tony Blair's former closest advisers launched a scathing attack on a "smear campaign" aimed at derailing his daughter's hopes of becoming an MP... more

A spin too far for the Statesman

24.03.09
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

Laying the ghost of 1983 was a scary experience

07.01.09
Any lingering doubts that revenge is a dish best served cold were removed as Spurs finally avenged one of the more memorable humiliations in even that hapless club's modern history on a glacial north London night. ... more

Where the political elite go for dinner and spicy gossip

02.12.08
From a cheap-and-cheerful curry house adored by the Lib-Dems to a "1970s-style" Italian restaurant that has become a Tory stronghold, the favoured establishments of London's politicos are revealed ... more

There is life after politics - just write a bad novel

04.11.08
As a Downing Street spin doctor, Alastair Campbell was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit... more

Literary Life

08.10.08
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Campbell is recalled to beef up election team

07.10.08
Alastair Campbell is set for a return to the political frontline ahead of next year's Euro and local elections... more

Mandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords

06.10.08
THE return of Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet for the third time — as Business Secretary — shows rehabilitation is always possible, however unlikely. ... more

Mandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords

06.10.08
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No. 10 plea to keep Iraq dossier secret is overruled

04.09.08
Ministers face having to release more details over the "sexed up" dossier which made the case for the invasion of Iraq... more

The trouble is, Ken - it's a question of trust

24.04.08
Polls show Ken ahead of Boris on most issues but behind on voting intentions and trust. As Tony Blair found - if people don't trust you, not much else matters ... more

Blair gives secret tips to Ken election team

24.04.08
Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell have been secretly giving advice to Labour campaign chiefs on how to get Ken Livingstone re-elected, it emerged... more

Doing the Marathon

02.04.08
With 30,000 runners raring to go the 2008 Flora London Marathon is fast approaching. But you don't have to be in the race to get in on the action.... more

Spinning a yarn - just the job for Campbell

26.02.08
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

A piece of Italy in the capital

23.07.07
La Cantina is as Italian as Pavarotti and mozzarella and as corny as Kansas - but utterly charming, says Mark Bolland.... more

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