There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. – 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
By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try? – Alastair Campbell
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell