Alastair Campbell

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 26: Presenter Victoria Derbyshire hosts "How Should I Vote? - The EU Debate" at The Briggait on May 26, 2016 in Glasgow. The BBC's first televised EU referendum debate was held in Glasgow in front of an audience of eighteen to twenty nine year olds and a panel of SNP's Alex Salmond and Labour's Alan Johnson backing staying in the EU while UKIP MEP Diane James and Conservative Liam Fox arguing to leave. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Brian Monteith: There’s hope when political bullies are called out

Gary Lineker is set to return to Match of the Day this weekend following disruption across the BBC Sport schedules.

Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day this weekend after BBC deal reached

The outgoing chief executive of Offshore Energies UK has warned against 'environmental populism'. Photo: Getty Images

Outgoing boss of oil and gas trade body warns against 'environmental populism'

Matt Hancock is in a hurry to get into the 'I'm a Celebrity' jungle, hoping for some reality-show redemption (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Aidan Smith: We're a medieval rabble hoping to see Matt Hancock suffer in stocks

Rangers' Alex Clelland avoids the challenge of Celtic's Jackie McNamara during an Old Firm meeting in January 1998, a few months before the proposal to stage a friendly in Belfast to mark the Good Friday Agreement. Pic: Stu Forster /Allsport

Celtic v Rangers Belfast friendly proposal unearthed in unseen government papers

Journalist, presenter and newsreader Huw Edwards has spoken about his fight with depression
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BBC anchorman Huw Edwards reveals his fight with depression

Bradley Wiggins after winning the 2012 Tour de France in Paris.

Sir Bradley Wiggins reveals he was sexually groomed by a coach at the age of 13

A young protester with 'peace' written on his chest demonstrates outside the Houses of Parliament with military action against Iraq loomng in 2003

Boris Johnson: Low standards in public life are nothing new - Readers' Letters

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Richard Madeley to host GMB for a month and 'could permanently replace Piers Mor...

Tony Blair appeared opposite Alastair Campbell and Susanna Reid (ITV)

Tony Blair explains how Labour can win power again during GMB appearance

John Bercow and Alastair Campbell clashed with GMB host Susanna Reid over lies told by Boris Johnson (Photo: Lindsey Parnaby/Getty Images/ITV)

John Bercow tells Good Morning Britain he can give ‘a number of examples’ of PM ...

The late Charles Kennedy.

Charles Kennedy faced 'abuse and denigration of worst kind' before he died

Many people have been struggling with mental health problems during the Covid lockdowns (Picture: John Devlin)

My depression seems like impenetrable fog but it will pass – Laura Waddell

Top left - taking down The Mallard sign, bottom left Susan and Cameron Low with their two sons Gavin and Ewan and a family picture of Iain and Flora Clark with their four children left to right Lorna, Catriona, Alasdair and Susan picture: Susan Law

Family retire after running East Lothian pub for almost 60 years

This year's Scots Trad Music Awards went ahead in a virtual format after the planned live ceremony had to be called off.

Charity single for NHS workers honoured at Scots Trad Music Awards

The statue of Edward Colston torn down in Bristol and Home Secretary Priti Patel (right) picture: supplied

Priti Patel slams XR and BLM activists for 'hooliganism and thuggery'

Alexander McCall Smith

Wigtown Book Festival review: “Sometimes it takes a plague year to appreciate th...

(Left to right) Shaun Bythell, Ben Porter, Beth Porter and Jane Baldwin, at Wigtown's Martyr's Stake in Wigtown Bay. They will all be launching Wigtown Book Festival. Picture: Colin Hattersley/Wigtown Book Festival Company/PA Wire

Andrew Marr on bill for Scottish online book festival

Understandable media concern for Boris Johnson’s wellbeing has tended to let his ministers, including Matt Hancock, off the hook. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty

Dani Garavelli: Boris has risen but don’t bank on an Easter miracle

The charity single was launched to coincide with the weekly #clapforcarers tribute.

Scottish musicians join forces with Alastair Campbell for NHS tribute

Alastair Campbell has family connections with the Hebridean island of Tiree.

Alastair Campbell's pride at being asked to play pipes on Scottish charity singl...

Finlay MacDonald, newly appointed director of the National Piping Centre, practises for the Pipe Up for Key Workers tribute with sons Elliott (10) and Fionn (8) on chanter

Bagpipers band together for big Scottish thank you to brave coronavirus workers

Alex Salmond is taking his Fringe stage show on a UK tour

Viewers react to Alex Salmond’s Brexit interview on RT

Rankins exhibition, which features a portrait of Sandra Barber, who has a brain tumour, is the latest to focus on terminal illness. Picture: Rankin

Tiffany Jenkins: Why the fascination with death?

Ewan Crawford: Self-empowerment is vital in uncertain times

Head injury a hidden killer, warns mother

Ewan Crawford: Spare a thought for the speech writer

Peter Capaldi and Alastair Campbell’s charity ‘swearathon’ broadcast to creche

Diaspora should have a vote, says Campbell

Interview: Alastair Campbell, former spin doctor to Tony Blair

Interview: Armando Iannucci, writer and director

Ewan Crawford: The pressing matter raised by political control

Andrew Jones: 'It is difficult to see how the tabloids will regain credibility'

Alastair Campbell: Spin and soundbites only take you so far

Ed Miliband not up to being Labour leader, says Campbell

Blood-thirsty midges have us all sized up

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy slams bankers with new take on The Twelve Days of ...

Campbell has new spin on Susan Boyle phenomenon

Peter Capaldi profile: An alter ego to swear by

Catherine Deveney Interview - Alastair Campbell

PM appoints Scot as strategist

Chapter and verse on MPs' summer reading habits

'God will judge me on Iraq invasion' says Blair

Probyn pins the blame on Sir Clive and Campbell

Brown insists IMF sums wrong after claim of budget black hole

The fall of Derry Irvine

Campbell put out by Blair's guitar playing on the phone

Blair cleared, BBC battered but 'whitewash' claims grow

Leaked Hutton report 'clears' Blair

Blair to escape 'personal criticism' in Hutton

Blair will have to answer charge of settling scores in row with BBC

Scientist scathing of original Gilligan story

Online phenomenon as website proves a big hit

Inquiry reveals Campbell ordered dossier rewrite

Trail uncovered leading from Hoon to Blair

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First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf during a visit to a school holiday club at Ayr Academy in Ayr, to announce additional funding to support families.

Analysis: SNP in the fight of their lives to limit the damage to 2017 levels

Tina Turner has died at the age of 83

Tina Turner dead: Music legend dies at the age of 83

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School shuts more than 20 rooms amid 'weak' concrete investigation