My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. – Alastair Campbell
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. – Alastair Campbell
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. – Alastair Campbell
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen – classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queens Christmas Day broadcast. – Alastair Campbell