Spinning a yarn

Entertaining to read in today’s Standard more details of the row between Alastair Campbell and Cherie Blair over the forthcoming Campbell Diaries. This relationship has had its ups and downs in the past – most spectacularly over Cherie’s connection with Carole Caplin and Peter Foster. But Alastair, I imagine, will be delighted. It was becoming dangerously orthodox that he had cut a deal with Gordon to keep the really good stuff out of his memoirs, due out in July, days after Brown takes over. Boring political books sell no copies. The spat with Cherie at least encourages the impression that Volume One will be juicy after all. Or is that just more spin?