Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell
Alastair John Campbellis a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for prime minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003. He resigned in August 2003 during the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 May 1957
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He included plenty of references of specific points of anxiety relating to the training and the day itself. And he put in a few specific trigger words or phrases that he urged me to say to myself whenever I felt I was weakening or panicking. The one that lodged was 'better, faster, stronger.
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For the entire period I worked for Tony Blair, almost a decade, I did not use a computer. This was not any old decade of course, but the one in which computer technology advanced further and faster than during any period in our history.
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He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that,
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It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage of a new round of intensive negotiations.
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He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me for the second Test defeat.
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A huge character, Gareth would bring a very different, perhaps more warlike approach,
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If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.
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I don't miss the limos and the jets. I do miss... what do I miss? I do miss Tony.
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When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players were hoping not to be selected. Because if they were, it meant they were not in the 23 being considered for a Test place on Saturday,
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time to move on and do other things.
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In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
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There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
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One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.
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For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.