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2013/05/19 08:15
2013/05/19 08:15
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He set up his Government Advisory Practice shortly after quitting Downing Street in 2007, enlisting Jonathan Powell, his former chief of staff, and Alastair Campbell, his former director of...
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2013/05/18 09:27
2013/05/18 09:27
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Driven to abstraction: the musician and composer Brian Eno photographed in 2011. Photograph: Jerome Bonnet. The toilets of the famous are centres of great significance. Liz Taylor was so used to...
2013/05/17 12:01
2013/05/17 12:01
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How many of your “five a day” have you had so far today? Did you avoid running for your train in the rain last night, knowing the station floor might be slippery? Or maybe you felt a twinge of...
2013/05/16 23:09
2013/05/16 23:09
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A few years ago a friend of mine went to pick his Finnish girlfriend up from OR Tambo. The girlfriend was archetypically Nordic. Tall, blonde. Said friend was of the hip-hop variety. Thin, black,...
2013/05/11 23:46
2013/05/11 23:46
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An appealing cross between Ewan McGregor and a labrador, Pilou Asbaek has a chirpy, puppyish insouciance and a terrifically expressive forehead. You can practically see the emotional tides ripple...
2013/05/11 21:09
2013/05/11 21:09
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... even so – sorry, mate – we still want it in writing. Considered in this context, it is remarkable that the PM’s speech on Britain’s relationship with the EU in January – promising the first...
2013/05/10 22:09
2013/05/10 22:09
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In the intervening years, the police, the BBC and other parts of the media have lost respect. The Army, through no fault of its own, has suffered reputational damage in two misguided wars. The...
2013/05/10 18:12
2013/05/10 18:12
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In an extraordinary series of photographs of Gordon Brown's last moments at No 10 by the Guardian's Martin Argles, Andrew Adonis appears twice: as a small, pale visage peering over Peter Mandelson's...
2013/05/09 23:38
2013/05/09 23:38
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The Hansard record shows he has not spoken or asked any oral or written questions in the Lords since he was originally charged under the Theft Act in February 2010, but since April of last year, the...
2013/05/09 20:12
2013/05/09 20:12
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Sorry about the Queen's speech. Sorry about running the country. His royal imperial highness has abdicated and the constitution is in abeyance. Big Ben is in dumb reverence. Ask the public (or its...
2013/05/09 15:09
2013/05/09 15:09
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Tim Allan: Big Society was meaningless Speaking at an event last night, the former deputy to Alastair Campbell at Number 10 and director of corporate communications at BSkyB said the prime minister...
Read more at Campaign, Campaign
2013/05/08 11:36
2013/05/08 11:36
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Labour leads Sir Alex tributes Sir Alex Ferguson's shock retirement on the day of the State Opening of Parliament has been received with glee by Labour, who hailed him for overshadowing the...
2013/05/08 09:26
2013/05/08 09:26
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Alex Ferguson and Alastair Campbell have been friends for many years. One is the greatest manager in British football history, who has a passion for politics. The other helped Labour win three...
2013/05/05 18:09
2013/05/05 18:09
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My beach reading, I suppose, is a bit odd. While my girlfriends read Fifty Shades, the Twilight sagas, the latest Dan Brown, and other books appropriate for the sun and sand, I punish myself with...
2013/05/04 23:13
2013/05/04 23:13
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A new book, Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader, in part examines the "rebranding" of depression, almost as a lifestyle term, which seems rather timely. Certainly, I've come to wonder if the term...
2013/05/03 18:17
2013/05/03 18:17
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Robbie Deans. Photo / Sarah Ivey The Lions are a wonderful rugby anachronism and the last link to the heady days when sides made decent rugby tours instead of drive-by test visits. They also bring...
2013/05/03 17:42
2013/05/03 17:42
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Question: when does a Mail article about a celebrity posting nude selfies on Twitter transcend from banal lechery to something truly, irresponsibly odious? Answer: when the subject of that article is...
2013/04/27 10:24
2013/04/27 10:24
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George Galloway. Photograph: Getty Images It’s not been a good few weeks for the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The Tory front for tax avoiders was widely ridiculed for its silence over the squandering of £10m...
2013/04/27 00:39
2013/04/27 00:39
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Alastair Campbell "What they like to say is they were broadly right," says Alastair Campbell of the fateful Today programme broadcast that set in train events that, a decade later, still cast a...
Read more at Independent, Independent
2013/04/23 17:50
2013/04/23 17:50
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Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight How much influence does Rupert Murdoch wield? There is not and never has been anyone like Rupert...