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Alastair Campbell RSS feedElections bring out the dark side of politics
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A shadow minister was describing to me over coffee recently the nature of the "depressing" atmosphere at the House of Commons2009-11-17T10:16:46ZThe Thick of It returns - but which hapless minister is Rebecca Front portraying?
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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 politique2009-10-27T09:05:53ZStephen Fry's delightful night
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Natascha McElhone and Nigella Lawson were at the Criterion Theatre last night to hear Stephen Fry in conversation with Alan Yentob.2009-10-19T09:54:13ZIraq backdrop to Alastair Campbell's choice
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2009-10-14T08:59:14ZNo 10 turns to Alastair Campbell and Gould to advise inexperienced election team
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Gordon Brown is forced to fall back on big guns from the Blair years after failing to appoint a full-time election supremo2009-09-14T08:42:35ZBloggers add to the gaiety of the political scene
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“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”.2009-09-04T07:38:18ZPolitical spin is having to change in internet age
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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 reputation2009-07-22T05:51:32ZSporting Miscellanies
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<b>Football:</b> Mystery enshrouds the boos that serenaded Kofi Annan at the FA Cup final2009-06-02T15:50:20ZYes men to blame for the gravy train
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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.2009-06-01T07:41:27ZMother said 'I don’t want you in that dirty world of politics'
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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 Thamesmead2009-05-22T09:33:20ZThe age of hardball
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People skills and being nice are fine in the good times but now the bully is back...2009-05-18T08:18:14ZFootball Talk
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<b>Football:</b> Could Arsenal's mascot be set for a surprise England call-up?2009-05-14T12:09:29ZThis girl is not good for Labour – or for London
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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.2009-04-20T08:03:14ZLabour battle over safe seat candidate
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A Labour civil war escalated over who should contest a safe seat in London at the next general election2009-04-17T08:40:51ZF***! – New film In the Loop restores swearing to an art form
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In the Loop, the film extension of The Thick of It, isn't released for three weeks yet but it is already making waves2009-03-27T09:04:39ZLabour peer Philip Gould blasts 'smear campaign' against daughter
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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 MP2009-03-26T09:00:39ZA spin too far for the Statesman
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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.2009-03-24T11:06:01ZLaying the ghost of 1983 was a scary experience
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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.2009-01-07T09:38:21ZWhere the political elite go for dinner and spicy gossip
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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 revealed2008-12-02T08:47:21ZThere is life after politics - just write a bad novel
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As a Downing Street spin doctor, Alastair Campbell was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit2008-11-04T09:06:52ZLiterary Life
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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.2008-10-02T11:56:41ZCampbell is recalled to beef up election team
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Alastair Campbell is set for a return to the political frontline ahead of next year's Euro and local elections2008-10-07T07:52:53ZMandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords
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THE return of Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet for the third time — as Business Secretary — shows rehabilitation is always possible, however unlikely.2008-10-06T12:03:24ZMandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords
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2008-10-06T12:03:24ZNo. 10 plea to keep Iraq dossier secret is overruled
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Ministers face having to release more details over the "sexed up" dossier which made the case for the invasion of Iraq2008-09-04T08:52:04ZThe trouble is, Ken - it's a question of trust
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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 matters2008-04-24T07:58:10ZBlair gives secret tips to Ken election team
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Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell have been secretly giving advice to Labour campaign chiefs on how to get Ken Livingstone re-elected, it emerged2008-04-24T08:22:58ZDoing the Marathon
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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.2008-04-02T09:21:20ZSpinning a yarn - just the job for Campbell
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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 weekend2008-02-26T08:25:01ZA piece of Italy in the capital
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La Cantina is as Italian as Pavarotti and mozzarella and as corny as Kansas - but utterly charming, says Mark Bolland.2007-07-22T23:00:00Z