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Alastair Campbell

Type: Person

Name: Alastair Campbell (Alastair John Campbell)

Title: Former Downing Street communications director

Date of Birth: 25/05/1957

Place of Birth: Keighley, West Yorkshire

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for Alastair Campbell

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Wellcome

Tiffany Jenkins: Why the fascination with death?

Celebrity photographer Rankin has snapped the most attractive and famous people in the world: Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig and George Clooney are just some of the beautiful people he has immortalised in their prime. But Rankin’s latest ... [Published The Scotsman - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Alastair Campbell, Wellcome, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Stephen Fry

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

The Conservative Party (United Kingdom)

MELISSA KITE: Cameron's chums DO despise the grass roots

By Try as it might, there is no honourable way for the Tory leadership to draw back from the fact it thinks that grassroots Conservatives are swivel-eyed loons.This is because too many people who have had private conversations with senior figures surrounding ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 19 2013]

Entities: The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Downing Street, UKIP UK Independence Party, David Cameron

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

'Who are the propagandists?'

“Who are the propagandists?” asks a grouchy Alastair Campbell to the camera, upon ruminating on the UK press’s mistreatment of the notorious Iraq War ‘dodgy dossier’ story.And it is exactly this question, and what propaganda has come to be and mean to ... [Published Total Politics - May 17 2013]

Entities: Propaganda, Kitchener, hilar, Alastair Campbell

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Propaganda: A Very Persuasive Show At The British Library

Over four million copies of this poster were printed between 1917 and 1918, after the US entered World War I. Because of its enormous and enduring popularity, the image was adapted for use in World War II and has been satirised in anti-war propaganda ... [Published Londonist - May 17 2013]

Entities: Propaganda, James Montgomery Flagg, Anthony d’Offay, World War I, Ian Cooke

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Old Tory scepticism has won

The Eurosceptics have won. They won long ago. Conservative MPs who rage about Europe should get out a good bottle of French wine and celebrate instead. It is the misty-eyed pro-Europeans who have lost. Indeed they have been slaughtered, their dreams are ... [Published The Independent - May 16 2013]

Entities: European Union, John Major, United Kingdom, Tony Blair, Referendum

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

State propaganda exhibition puts Morph and Hitler under scrutiny

More than 200 posters, films, interviews and other ephemera part of look at gentle – and not so gentle – methods of persuasion Could it be the first major exhibition to feature the little red book, the Green Cross Code, Hitler, the guy who did the Falklands ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]

Entities: Propaganda, Ian Cooke, Green Cross Co Ltd, Public Information

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Alastair Campbell

Britain's spying trade has become simply a PR industry

At what point did the spying trade turn into a branch of the public relations industry?I blame Alastair Campbell, who, confronted with the necessity of selling an unpopular war, redefined the Secret Intelligence Service as an auxiliary spin machine. The ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 15 2013]

Entities: Alastair Campbell, MI6, Moscow, United Kingdom

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Borgen star Kasper: "Hollywood will come calling on Denmark"

Pilou Asbæk on his new film A Hijacking, becoming a father, and why he's reading Alastair Campbell's biographyMy time right now is split in thirds between an aeroplane, filming in Prague and with my girlfriend and newly born baby girl. Our daughter was ... [Published The Big Issue - May 15 2013]

Entities: Borgen, Hollywood, Denmark

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Propaganda: Power and Persuasion

The British Library’s summer season will be shining a light on state propaganda and the influence that its rationales, methods and effectiveness have had. With a line-up of renowned guest speakers alongside intriguing artefacts and objects from the Third ... [Published Red Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Propaganda, Alastair Campbell, PACCAR Inc

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

The pressure is on David Cameron to deliver the goods

ONE of the most famous diary entries of Alastair Campbell, New Labour bully boy and media manipulator extraordinaire, ran as follows: "There is this huge stuff about trust." ... [Published Daily Express - May 11 2013]

Entities: David Cameron, Commodities, Alastair Campbell

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 2 reports

Mehdi's Morning Memo: Deputy Commons Speaker Arrested For Rape

) DEPUTY COMMONS SPEAKER ARRESTED FOR RAPE "Top Tory arrested for rape," declares the Sunday Mirror."Deputy speaker in rape arrest," says the Sunday Times."Top Tory arrested over 'rape'," is the headline in the Sunday Telegraph."Tory deputy speaker in ... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 05 2013]

Entities: UKIP UK Independence Party, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Rape, Nigel Evans, Nigel Farage

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

SA NGOs to suffer most from UK's funding withdrawal

The UK’s decision to cut aid to South Africa by R250 million within two years could have a rippling effect, local NGO’s said.Britain says its decision to cut millions of pounds in direct aid by 2015, is based on South Africa’s transformation and development ... [Published ENCA - May 02 2013]

Entities: Alastair Campbell, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, United Kingdom

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Tiffany Jenkins: Why the fascination with death? [Published The Scotsman - 17 hours ago]
MELISSA KITE: Cameron's chums DO despise the gr... [Published Mail Online UK - May 19 2013]
TV preview: Case Histories \| The Last Days of A... [Published The Scotsman - May 18 2013]
'Who are the propagandists?' [Published Total Politics - May 17 2013]
Propaganda: A Very Persuasive Show At The Briti... [Published Londonist - May 17 2013]
State propaganda exhibition puts Morph and Hitl... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Old Tory scepticism has won [Published The Independent - May 16 2013]
Britain's spying trade has become simply a PR i... [Published Mail Online UK - May 15 2013]
Borgen star Kasper: "Hollywood will come callin... [Published The Big Issue - May 15 2013]
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion [Published Red Online - May 15 2013]
How Spin Doctors Have Turned Democracy On Its Head [Published Worldcrunch - May 13 2013]
Borgen’s Pilou Asbaek on his Somalian pirate film [Published The Scotsman - May 12 2013]
The pressure is on David Cameron to deliver the... [Published Daily Express - May 11 2013]
Andrew Adonis interview: 'I learned to survive ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 10 2013]
Alex Ferguson's hairdryer treatment won't cut i... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - May 09 2013]
Andy McSmith's Diary: £300 a day, just for turn... [Published The Independent - May 09 2013]
Tim Allan claims David Cameron failed to define... [Published Brand Republic - May 09 2013]
The last great dictator [Published The Independent - May 08 2013]
Should David Cameron be worried about Tory MPs ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 08 2013]
Labour leads Sir Alex tributes [Published Garstang Courier - May 08 2013]
Eddy Shah accused of raping girl of 14: Tycoon ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 08 2013]
Richard Kay: Swimwear queen tears into new rival [Published Mail Online UK - May 06 2013]
How to lure people to politics [Published Times of Malta - May 05 2013]
Mehdi's Morning Memo: Deputy Commons Speaker Ar... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 05 2013]
Even Tories admit Dave needed this 'kick in the... [Published Mail Online UK - May 05 2013]
Severe depression is hell – even if you are fam... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 05 2013]
Amanda Bynes and the crass treatment of 'troubl... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 03 2013]
Education journalist Fiona Millar opts to 'take... [Published Camden New Journal - May 02 2013]
Wossy’s exit was a window of opportunity for Ch... [Published London Evening Standard - May 02 2013]

Blogs

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Alex Ferguson's hairdryer treatment won't cut i... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - May 09 2013] The Manchester United boss has been wildly lauded for his success on the pitch. Those who govern us don't have it so easy Sorry about the Queen's speech. Sorry about running the country. His royal imperial highness has abdicated and the constitution ...
Mrs Mad Al Throws in Towel [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - Apr 29 2013] The ghastly Fiona Miller finally woke up to the fact that her psycho husband was always going to blow her chances of becoming an MP. According to the Standard , Mrs Alastair Campbell has pulled out of the race to be the next Member for Hampstead. Despite how ...
Is Gove’s school reform genie out of the bottle? [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 19 2013] Will Michael Gove’s reforms outlast him? They are perhaps this government’s single greatest accomplishment. Within three years it has gone from legislation to a nascent industry, and much of it on display at yesterday’s Spectator education conference, ...
Interview With the Bookseller Magazine [Published Iain Dale's Diary - Apr 12 2013] Published in this week’s Bookseller Magazine , article by Tom Tivnan. Having stood as the Conservative candidate in Norfolk North in 2005 and been on the Tory shortlist in another handful of constituencies, Iain Dale is no stranger to giving speeches. ...
Margaret Thatcher and neo-liberal sovereignty [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Apr 11 2013] As a footnote to my post on Margaret Thatcher , I wanted to draw attention to some responses to the special sitting of Parliament and the state funeral in her memory. A number of Labour MPs boycotted the House of Commons (and I wondered whether ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Does politics allow MPs to 'do God'? [Published BBC News Video - Politics - Dec 03 2012]