Gideon Donald
Gideon Donald first met David Cameron at Heatherdown preparatory school in Berkshire. Their friendship continued to prosper at Eton and the Bullingdon Club. His column Preparing For Power draws on his remarkable access to Cameron's coterie. Despite threatening to resign after guest editor Alastair Campbell spiked his article, Gideon continues to write weekly for the New Statesman.
Articles by Gideon Donald
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UK Politics
Jeremy Clarkson isn’t Everyman, he’s Reptonman
- 12 November 2009
Clarkson has shown his lack of class again by attacking Mandelson
UK Politics
Pulling the puppet’s strings
- 24 September 2009
Writing Cameron's speech has become a Babelian muddle
UK Politics
Meet the candidate – a complete fruitcake
- 10 September 2009
So damned fluid are the classes these days, I had seemingly mistaken mistress for maid
UK Politics
Notting Hell of Osborne’s celebrity dinner
- 03 September 2009
At dinner Osborne placed me between Dominic Mohan and someone called Alan Davies
UK Politics
The many self-sacrifices of Citizen Hague
- 20 August 2009
When he drops the bluff Yorkshireman act Hague can be passable company.
Politics
Cameron’s Blond moment in Corfu
- 13 August 2009
My growing concerns over Dave's new "favourite thinker"
