History Creator / AlastairCampbell

** He once lamped a man for making a TooSoon joke about the drowning of his ''previous'' MeanBoss, Robert Maxwell.[[note]][[AffectionateNickname Captain Bob...]] Bob... [[IncrediblyLamePun Bobbing...]][[/note]]

-->--'''Email sent immediately afterwards'''

* Also in 2011, [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] broadcast four short monologues, each from the perspective of a different real-life Downing Street cat, called Radio/PoliticalAnimals. Campbell is an antagonist in the second episode, ''Humphrey.''

* Also in 2011, [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] broadcast four short monologues, each from the perspective of a different real-life Downing Street cat. Campbell is an antagonist in the second episode, ''Humphrey.''

* TheAlcoholic: Like the rest of Fleet Street, he drank heavily in the late 1970s--mid 1980s, culminating in a breakdown in 1986. In recovery he became TheTeetotaler - [[OffTheWagon for a while.]]

** StalkerWithACrush, TheTragicRose, DomesticAbuser, PrivateDetective and TheSvengali collide in ''Maya,'' with inevitably calamitous results.

* ManInAKilt: Normally in conjunction with EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes.

[[JackOfAllTrades He's also a]] [[TheBeautifulGame football nut,]] [[ManInAKilt alleged Scot,]] [[PornWithPlot former softporn writer]] [[PenName (under the pen name]] [[EmbarrassingNickname 'The Riviera Gigolo'),]] [[UrbanLegendLoveLife suspected former]] [[UnproblematicProstitution sex worker,]] [[GratuitousFrench Francophone,]] [[GratuitousGerman Germanophone,]] [[AthleticArenaLevel triathlete,]] [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes and bagpipe player.]] He's shared a pitch with Diego Maradona. [[RunningGag But he never talks about it.]]

** ''Literature/MyNameIs'' (2013)

* TheAlcoholic

* BreakTheCutie

* StrawmanNewsMedia

* TheSvengali: Sometimes portrayed as this to a naive Blair.

[[JackOfAllTrades He's also a]] [[TheBeautifulGame football nut,]] [[ManInAKilt alleged Scot,]] [[PornWithPlot former softporn writer]] [[PenName (under the pen name]] [[EmbarrassingNickname 'The Riviera Gigolo'),]] [[UrbanLegendLoveLife suspected former]] [[UnproblematicProstitution sex worker,]] [[GratuitousFrench Francophone,]] [[GratuitousGerman Germanophone,]] [[AthleticArenaLevel triathlete,]] [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes and bagpipe player.]] He's shared a pitch with Diego Maradona. [[BlatantLies But he never]] [[RunningGag talks about it.]]

* BeserkButton: ThatLiarLies. Unfortunate, given his reputation (deserved or not) as a liar.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With his petite journalist partner, [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/02/article-0-00686A7800000258-703_233x423.jpg Fiona Millar.]]

->''"I'm [[HopelessWithTech not very good at this email Blackberry malarkey.]] [[SarcasmMode Campbell swears shock.]] Final sentence of earlier email probably [[{{Understatement}} a bit colourful and personal]] considering we have never actually met but I'm sure you share the same sense of humour as your star presenter Mr P[axman]."''

* WithFriendsLikeThese: The whole New Labour inner circle. If Andrew Rawnsley is to be believed, rarely has a country been run by a more dysfunctional bunch of backstabbers and narcissists.

* LighterAndSofter: Since leaving Downing Street and becoming a novelist, according to some reports. Others say he was [[HeroWithBadPublicity always like that.]] ''Others'' say he [[VillainWithGoodPublicity hasn't changes a bit.]]

* DreadfulMusician: In reality he's not that bad, but anyone who dares to play the bagpipes will have this trope applied to them anyway.

* OopNorth: Despite being born in Scotland and raised in Yorkshire, he sounds like a Londoner. [[RealityIsUnrealistic Don't expect actors to reflect this accurately.]] It's something to do with Northerners being tough and louche.

* 2007 saw the premier of ''TONY! The Blair Musical,'' a comedy [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin musical about Tony Blair's career.]] Campbell - portrayed, as is so often the case, as an amoral bastard - has a few numbers. His departure is depicted as the moment things start to fall apart for Tony.