Campbell gets Chatham House in a spin

An interesting spat, of sorts, between Alastair Campbell and Keith Burnet, the communications director of Chatham House, may be looming after the latter had a letter published in today's Financial Times. He takes issue with Campbell's claim that it is difficult for the famous Chatham House rule to survive in a world with Twitter and Facebook. "The rule can be used effectively as long as the person tweeting or messaging reports only what was said and does not identify – directly or indirectly – the speaker or another participant," Burnet writes, rather sniffily. Monkey looks forward to Campbell's tweeted response.