Alastair Campbell

Oh, God, all this British stuff.

If you're wondering, however, what to buy, the politically obsessed person in your life this Christmas...

might I gently suggest a year's membership to The Rest is Politics Plus.

So think of this as a civilised gift

to allow families to disagree agreeably over Christmas.

What could be nicer?

So spread a little political peace and goodwill.

Head to therestispolitics.com and click gifts.

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supporting charities and good causes in local communities.

I think the biggest ever political human achievement, I actually do think it relates to global public health.

I think the efforts that have been made successfully to eradicate some diseases and massively to cut down on others, malaria, TB, AIDS, etc.

I think I put that right up there.

Well, one of my favorite current show of hands in my show of hands obsession at speaking events is we talk about everything's going well and the government's this and the government's that.

And then when it gets really moany, I'll just say, okay, let's just hold on.

Hands up if you quite enjoy your life.

And everybody puts their hands up.

I think it is worth holding on to that.

We're quite an optimistic sort of breed, really.

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