Alastair Campbell

How very strange...

Having been "cleared" by the PCC's ludicrous non-investigation into the Guardian's allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World , editor at the time and now chief Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson must have...

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Chilcot won't give us Blair's head

The parliament that approved the war now bays for his blood. This inquiry is a way of getting MPs off the hook Hurrah. It's Colosseum time again. The all-singing, all-dancing Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war is in town at the...

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Paul O'Grady firm honoured at diversity awards

Olga TV recognised for 'excellence in off-screen recruitment' at inaugural Cultural Diversity Network awards Paul O'Grady's production company Olga TV was honoured for "excellence in off-screen recruitment" last night at the...

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Simon Hoggart's sketch | Dead gazelle of politics offers plenty to feed on

To Pall Mall, London, for the annual Political Studies Association awards. This is an agreeable beanfeast at which politicians meet the academics who write about them. And the academics meet the politicians in roughly the same...

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The former executive director of the FA talks about how he sparked a row over television coverage...

David Davies has never been averse to taking on a challenge, which is why he sees himself as something of a firefighter. So much so that I thought I may be forced to evacuate the elegant Ivy Club, which is Davies's central...

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Politicians on The Simpsons

Presidents and prime ministers who have appeared on the animated comedy show - some knowingly, some not so much George H W Bush (1990) In a swipe at the TV show, the then president said in a re-election campaign speech that "We...

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Dave’n’George: there may be trouble ahead

They are the Bullingdon Club boys who cycle to work together and are godfather to each other’s children. David Cameron and George Osborne are neighbours in Notting Hill and if the Tories win power they are planning to set up...

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Breaking out

The Daily Mail is running the " Climategate " story this morning – the first paper to give it a halfway decent airing. Furthermore, the piece is accompanied by robust editorial which wonders whether "the pernicious culture of...

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Disability turns laughing matter on C4

Every character in Cast Offs, which starts tomorrow, is played by a disabled actor with the same disability From the one-armed presenter Cerrie Burnell joining CBeebies to James Partridge – who has a facial disfigurement –...

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New polls show Britain could face hung parliament

A Tory landslide seemed inevitable at the next general election. But recent soundings show a different trend as Labour benefits from optimism about the economy Alastair Campbell is not normally one to trash the state of the...

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