Gideon Donald

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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David must goad the Guardianistas

  • 06 August 2009
  • 1 comment

The Guardian has played into the Tories' hands by threatening to close the Observer

The Clarkson-shaped hole in our Chablis strategy

  • 30 July 2009

Clarkson has more input into current Tory thinking than most members of the shadow cabinet

Did the Clunking Fist engineer the recession?

  • 23 July 2009

Holy Moses! Coren is Dave’s dish of the day

  • 16 July 2009

The Windsors aren’t posh enough for me

  • 09 July 2009

The celebrity ladder theory

  • 02 July 2009

An embarrassment of Etonians

  • 25 June 2009

Doing a Gove at the bash for Brooks and Beks

  • 18 June 2009

Enjoying a spot of hit and run with John Major

  • 11 June 2009

When dull men take drastic measures

  • 04 June 2009

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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