I do know people who felt they couldn’t stay with partners once serious mental health issues threatened their own wellbeing, and it would be dishonest of me to say there haven’t been a few moments when I questioned if it was right to stay. But we now know it is possible to live better with depression, and that is what I would wish for anyone existing in the shadow of this terrible illness. These are difficult questions to ask and to answer and I have agonised over them all, while blaming myself for not being able to help until Alastair agreed to see a psychiatrist rather than try to cure himself. This watershed moment followed a terrifying incident on Hampstead Heath when fear, anger, helplessness, loss of purpose, self-loathing – I will never know which – caused him to start punching himself in the face. Durrani, Arif (13 January 2014). "Alastair Campbell succeeds Piers Morgan at GQ". Campaign. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017 . Retrieved 13 April 2017.

VIDEO: Alastair Campbell teams up with Scottish musicians to release NHS charity single". The Sunday Post. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020 . Retrieved 4 May 2020. Campbell was born on 25 May 1957 in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, son of Scottish veterinary surgeon Donald Campbell and his wife Elizabeth. [4] [5] Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice. [6] Donald was a Gaelic-speaker from the island of Tiree; his wife was from Ayrshire. [7] Campbell grew up with two older brothers, Donald and Graeme, and a younger sister, Elizabeth. Alastair Campbell". Trusupporter. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009 . Retrieved 8 September 2011. Alastair Campbell views In the Loop". YouTube. 4 August 2009. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014 . Retrieved 4 April 2014.

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Our politics is a mess. We have leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. And we are confronted with policies that serve the interests of the privileged few. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I do?' Eventually, I pulled over, and tried to calm myself. I did what I often did when under pressure – I compared how I was feeling to how I felt at my worst, psychotic meltdown in 1986. That was a nine. How bad is this? Six, maybe seven. Come on. You can get through it. Political Strategist, New European editor-at-large, mental health campaigner and co-host of the country’s Number 1 podcast The Rest is Politics, Alastair Campbell comes to UCL for a special opening event of the UCL Political Science, Policy & Practice seminar series for 2023 in partnership with the UCL Policy Lab. UCL Culture Bloomsbury Theatre Discussion/Q&A , Talk Current Students public But What Can I Do? In conversation with Alastair Campbell This event will explore the hopes and concerns of young people from across UCL and London about engaging in politics and consider how our political system can become more open to their participation.

Every couple has an origin story, and I would like to hear his and Stewart’s. How did their bromance start? Were they friends before TRIP? Are they, come to that, friends now? “You know what?” he says. “It’s really weird. This is only the, what… sixth time we’ve been face to face in real life. Rory lives in Amman [in Jordan, where his wife, Shoshana, works as the CEO of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, the NGO founded by Stewart, the then Prince of Wales, and Hamid Karzai], so we record online usually. We’re never in the same place, you see.”

Sport is central to Putin's power, which is why Russia should be kicked out of the World Cup

East, Ben (14 September 2013). "My Name Is... by Alastair Campbell – review". The Observer. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014 . Retrieved 15 February 2014. After leaving university and doing casual jobs Campbell was accepted as a trainee reporter with the Mirror Group Newspapers. Campbell clashed with Adam Boulton on Sky News about the result of the 2010 general election, with the latter being reduced to shouting over both Campbell and the show's presenter. [32] The Blair Years". The Random House Group. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009 . Retrieved 13 August 2007.