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
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
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. – Alastair Campbell
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. – Alastair Campbell
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St