3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell 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.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell By asking the question ‘Am I happy?,’ and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – ‘Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?’
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
