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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
Alastair Campbell
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Alastair Campbell
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 25
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Alastair John Campbell
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
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Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.
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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
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Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.
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