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
believe driven very-deep
I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
jobs records dykes
Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.
childhood happy-childhood
I had a happy childhood.
accepting crisis
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
hate losing driven
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
liars paper telling-the-truth
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.
christmas mother queens
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
royal causes mouths
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
medicine doctors media
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
jobs independent cutting
What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.
stars believe taken
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.
royal reason decline
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
stars media world
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
move time
time to move on and do other things.