Alistair Campbell

Diary – 6 December 2003

There are upsides to the infamy of being a controversial political and hate figure

issue 06 December 2003

Addis Ababa

The last time I was here was to cover the story of the mid-Eighties famine for the Mirror. The story was complicated by the fact that we had Robert ‘Mercy Mission’ Maxwell for company. I was summoned to the presence for a briefing by Captain Bob. ‘First, we are going to save the starving.

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