Alistair Campbell’s emotion on the Marr show

On his BBC Andrew Marr  interview this morning (Sunday), Alastair Campbell paused significantly for breath and in order to constrain tears when asked about Tony Blair’s honesty. For The Evening Standard’s Paul Waugh this was a repeat of Campbell’s C4 moment, when the latter stormed the studio shortly before the news and demanded to be allowed on, then subsequently took part abrasively in an interview with Jon Snow.  Campbell’s clearly a man capable of high emotion, surprisingly human to some, yet he’s also a master of media management.  Today’s moment was not a repeat of the C4 moment, it was its antithesis, in some ways even the antidote. Campbell’s selling a book now. And it looks like he might in future join the ranks of journalists who have gone on to have very successful careers as authors (a la his mate, the excellent writer Robert Harris)....