alastair hates david

I'm stuck in my office waiting for students to ignore their appointments, so here's a quick one from the student newspaper:

Former Downing Street press secretary, Alastair Campbell, launched a scathing attack on David Cameron at Teviot [one of the student unions] last Friday, branding the Conservative Party leader as little more than a "spin doctor" who "thinks it's all about presentation."

Ah, irony. It's one thing to tell a lie, but quite another to start believing it yourself, no?

Campbell then goes on to criticise the media for thinking that politicians are either continually lying or believe the opposite of what they've said. This incredulity is apparently the faulty of a biased and scandal hungry media, and not in any way the result of.. oh.. the dominance of professional spin-doctors, shysters and liars at the heart of 10 Downing Street.

Presumably, we're to believe that not only is Campbell totally uninvolved in the change of the relationship between the media and politicians but also that he pees spring water from the magical fountain of truth.

Still and sparkling.