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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Alastair Campbell
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Alastair Campbell
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 25
Diarist
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Keighley
West Yorkshire
Alastair John Campbell
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