Chris Mullin Articles

Chris Mullin’s diaries trace the rise and fall of New Labour. He talks to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison about the lessons he learned On Thursday 12 May 1994, for the first time in his life, Chris Mullin began to keep a diary. His first entry – ‘John Smith is dead’...

Events, dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell is a very enjoyable book. Edited by Ruth Winstone who also edited Chris Mullin’s diaries it takes you back to the most amusing parts of a century of politics in the words of diarists from...

Although the title of this book is a deliberate reference to the Crossman Diaries, it is more reminiscent of Chris Mullin’s recent three volumes of diaries. Like Mullin, and unlike Crossman, Spicer never reached the cabinet, but – like Mullin – he served in numerous...

If the media reports are to be believed, Tribune magazine faces closure after 75 years. I’ve been a subscriber to Tribune for long enough to have seen repeated financial crises hit it, with a series of bailouts by unions or individuals. But this time it appears to be...