In May 2003, Dr David Kelly told a BBC journalist that Alastair Campbell had personally added the invented ‘45 minute’ WMD claim to the infamous 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq. Two months later, after being exposed under pressure from Campbell and subsequently harassed, Kelly was dead.
https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1387704295152365570
Campbell’s reinvention as a celebrity mental health advocate is grotesque.
https://twitter.com/louis_allday/status/1187313595937370114
It should never be forgotten that people like John McDonnell and Owen Jones have been central to Campbell’s rehabilitation/transformation into a respectable elder statesman type figure.
https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1296413043493154816
A society in which an unrepentant monster like Alastair Campbell is publicly lauded and repeatedly given a national platform is deeply sick.
It probably goes without saying at this point, but of course The Guardian too has been prominent in Campbell's rehabilitation, even giving him space to write this violently hypocritical, utterly shameless article:
https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1150814350250262528?s=20
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