Matthew Norman: Campbell, with the best bits left out
Not for the first time in the context of Alastair Campbell, but almost certainly for the last, we should offer a quiet prayer of thanks to the state broadcaster. The organisation that removed Mr Campbell from political life at such cost to itself will transmit three hour-long extracts from his Downing Street diaries within days of their publication next month, thus removing all temptation to blow £25 on what promises to be the biggest publishing non-sensation since the Hitler Diaries themselves.
The general form with such a memoir, on what’s known in the literary world as the Blunkett Principle, is to buy the Daily Mail for four or five days, plough through the serialisation for the tasty bits, and then wait for the remainder bins at Waterstone’s to fill before buying a few copies at £2.99 a time to give as Christmas presents to those relatives who have pissed you off most during the past 12 months.
Posted on June 1st, 2007 at 12:38pm under Chicken Nuggets, Culture, media and sport, UK politics
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