If You Look At The Other People

Tony [blair] Slowly Sucked Me Back In For The 2005 Campaign, And From Six Months Out, I Was Basically Working Full Time Trying To Keep The Tony[blair] - Gordon[brown] Thing Together For The Campaign. It Was Awful.

So Here Is One Of My Theories On Happiness: We Cannot Know If We Have Lived A Truly Happy Life Until The Very End. This View Of Life And Death Was Reinforced By My Close Witnessing Of The Buildup To The Death Of Philip Gould. Philip Was Without Doubt My Closest Friend In Politics. When He Died, I Felt Like I Had Lost A Limb.

I Do Think It's Strange That I Get Associated With Iraq More Than The People Who Were Foreign Secretary Or Defence Secretary. It's Because Of My Closeness To Tony [blair], Which I Don't Regret At All. I Think That Was A Privilege.

I Feel Like Thanking Paul Dacre Every Time, Because The Reason They Ask Me Is Because They Think I've Come Through The Other End With A Pretty Good Reputation. Loads Of People Get A Bad Press But Have A Good Reputation. [david] Beckham - Think What He Went Through. [bill] Clinton, Likewise. You Just Have To Be True To Yourself.

The Media Are Obsessed With Spin Doctors And With Portraying Them As A Bad Thing, Yet Seem Addicted To Our Medicine.