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Like a combination of Mario Testino and Alastair Campbell, he was the chief projector of royal glamour, and chief political image maker, of Charles I. In the process Anthony van Dyck set the standard for the grand British regal portrait, and was emulated by later artists from Gainsborough to John Singer Sargent to the portraitists of the golden age of Hollywood. In February, Tate Britain promises...
Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, has been shortlisted for the Literary Review's Bad Sex prize for his debut novel, All in the Mind. The nomination appears merited. In…
Here's a clever little website I came across whilst checking out an Alastair Campbell evening on the Wirral in December - it's called Transport Direct . It allows you to plan your journey from door-to-door and from almost anywhere to anywhere. And that includes the time it takes you to walk from home to the bus stop or the train station. More about the organisations behind this site here . A really...
Mike Smithson, at Political Betting , ponders whether the return of Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson has contributed to Gordon Brown's recent resurgence and positive media coverage: One of big decisions that Gord took during his summer holiday was to beef up Labour and the government’s whole PR operation in order to compete with the Tory threat. Result: the return of perhaps the most successful...
My friend James Forsyth asks a daring question: "Will Peter Mandelson end up a National Treasure?" A crazy notion, you may feel, but not an impossible one! Now, of course, in many respects Mandeslon is a dreadful character, but whereas, say, Alastair Campbell is a mere thuggish bully, Mandelson is a subtler operator who enlivens, rather than demeans, the political game. I suspect the lobby is delighted...
Not that he's got a day job at the moment. But, as you can see from his bagpipe-playing performance on the Richard and Judy show tonight, there are many contributions to British public life for which he'll be remembered – but music probably isn't one of them. Campbell was asked to play Happy Birthday in honour of Prince Charles, who is 60 today . Whether the prince will be grateful for the gesture...
If you were Prince Charles, and were about to celebrate your sixtieth birthday, how might you best do it? Why, by listening to Alastair Campbell play HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the bagpipes, of course. I jest not.
Friday Professor Martin Sturrock felt a rising sense of panic as he sat in his office waiting for his first patient. Was writing down all he knew about mental illness really going to make an interesting book? Luckily, he had good friends at Random House so he was guaranteed a decent advance and he carried on with the dull and repetitive plot structure he had first scribbled on the back of a remaindered...
Help-SelfJenny Diski reviewsAll in the Mind by Alastair Campbell I recently received an email headed ‘Literature and Madness Network’ inviting me to the ‘1st Seminar of the Madness and Literature Network’, which is to culminate in the ‘1st International Conference in Health Humanities’ in 2010. Leave aside the use of the word ‘network’, and the mystery of ‘Health Humanities’: at least the upshot is...
AS A 10 DOWNING STREET SPIN doctor, Alastair Campbell was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit. Now he has transferred his skills to writing
All in the Mind Alastair Campbell Hutchinson, 304pp, £17.99 Alastair Campbell's first novel is a difficult book to read - more accurately, to finish - and a scary one to review; there is little public evidence to contradict the description of its author by the former Telegraph editor Charles Moore as "the most pointlessly combative person in human history". There is also the problem of how to read...
