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
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and Im not religious. – Alastair Campbell
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
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. – Francis C. Farley