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New Statesman (Free subscription) | yesterday
Set by Joy Hosker At its second fundraising dinner on 10 July, Labour was offering more lots, including a tennis match with Tony Blair and a chance to be a character in Alastair Campbell's new novel. We asked you for further (max: ten) money-raising suggestions Wow. Only one clear winner this week, who managed to make me chuckle with every one of his ten suggestions. A extraordinary feat, which means...
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Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Has Alastair Campbell come to the rescue of Gordon Brown, and gone to Scotland to advise the Labour Party on tactics in Glasgow East? Yesterday morning Mr Campbell was spotted eating breakfast in the Crutherland House Hotel in East Kilbride, only a few miles from the Glasgow East constituency. The hotel subsequently confirmed to a colleague from BBC Scotland today that Tony Blair's former spin-doctor...
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Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Sam Coates over at Red Box has been documenting the difficulties of luring donors to Gordon's big Wembley fundraiser tonight: Apparently Alastair Campbell is frantically texting round the great and the good to try and drum up numbers for tomorrow night's Labour fundraiser at Wembley. Bit late now... One person has apparently been phoned 8 times asked to buy a c. £15,000 table. Still saying no. In contrast...
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Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
If you are among those Labour MPs who were reluctant to buy a £1000 seat or a £10,000 table for ten for Labour's fundraising gig at Wembley tomorrow night, will the new knockdown price of £250 change your mind? I...
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London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister's wife, his deputy and his bagman. The granddaddy of them all, Blair's...
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Olly's Onions (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A government report has revealed that more than four million tonnes of goodwill has been wasted in the last year. Gordon Brown responded to the report by reheating Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, stale leftovers from the Blairite era. "Bubble and Squeak, we call them," said a spokesman for the prime minister. Subscribe in a reader
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Charles on... anything that comes along (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Courtesy of Tom Watson, Cabinet Office minister, I was invited on Thursday night to 11 Downing St (I’d been in No.10 before, when Alastair Campbell stalked the earth). The occasion: a reception for “digital entrepreneurs”, though also - it turned out - to give a namecheck to the Free Our Data campaign as an inspiration [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Gordon Brown has turned to key allies of Tony Blair, including his former communications director Alastair Campbell, for advice on how to plot a fightback against the Conservatives.
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Richard Spring MP (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The Alastair Campbell press spokesman school of charm is alive and well in Harare if the words of one George Charamba are to be believed. Comments about hanging and dripping blood echo the absurdities of Comical Ali, except that it illustrates just how far the Mugabe cabal has descended into unreality. In Sharm-El-Sheikh it really was [...]
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Writing in today’s Guardian, Nick Clegg said: [Henley] showed us that the evaporation of New Labour’s support in southern England - so carefully put together in the 1990s by Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell - is now complete. So what hope is there left for progressive voters in Britain? Has Cameron’s aversion to spelling out [...]
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Robitaille's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Reading historical books, especially the ones based on daily diaries, is like giving you access to a time machine. I’m currently reading “The Blair Years” by Alastair Campbell, but temporally I’m currently in April 1998: Northern Ireland, Iraq, Bill Clinton (i.e, Monika Lewinsky affair), preparation for the year 2000 celebrations under way, etc. A real [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
In Here Lies Arthur, Philip Reeve recasts the legend of Arthur, the once and future king, stripping it of its romance and mysticism and leaving in their place a lesson in political mendacity that would impress Machiavelli, not to say Alastair Campbell.
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Eurogamer (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Alastair Campbell not available for comment.
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Mick Cleary (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
The ghost of Alastair Campbell hovers round this place. Holding court: Alastair Campbell didn't float everyone's boat Just back from a press conference at England's hotel down in Auckland harbour. The Lions were based there three years ago. It seems like yesterday, with all its attendant horrors. Read more...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
Such is the relentlessness of Tony Blair's public immersion into matters of faith these days that Alastair Campbell's "we don't do God" assertion in Downing Street has now been fully exposed for what it was: a skilful piece of diversionary spin.
