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Chris Mullin

Chris Mullin is a British Labour politician and diarist who was member of parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. He is also an author and journalist.

June 2024

  • books

    ‘It was an awakening’: Diane Abbott, Nicola Sturgeon, Rory Stewart and more on the books that shaped their politics

    From Animal Farm to The Female Eunuch ... Caroline Lucas, Alan Johnson and others reveal the books that get their vote

August 2023

  • The former MP for Sunderland South Chris Mullin, in a photo from Didn't You Use to Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010 to 2022.

    Brief letters
    With age comes great political wisdom

    Brief letters: Voting back the years | Keir and Coldplay | Pane it black | Missing millions | Head transplant

June 2023

  • Chris Mullin with his wife Ngoc in a garden

    Book of the day
    Didn’t You Use to Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 review – blasts from the sidelines

  • Hugh Callaghan at his home in London in 2022. After his release from prison he could not bring himself to live in Birmingham again.

    Hugh Callaghan obituary

May 2023

  • Shadowy intrigue … the Houses of Parliament.

    Chamber of horrors: the best and worst Westminster insider novels

    Whips by Cleo Watson is nothing new – politicos have forever tried their hand at fiction. We take a referendum on the good, the bad and the scandalous

February 2023

  • Keir Starmer, the then shadow Brexit secretary, with Jeremy Corbyn the then Labour party leader, in December 2019.

    Keir Starmer’s change of tune on Jeremy Corbyn

    Letters: Former Labour MP Chris Mullin deprecates the way the party’s current leader has treated his predecessor

November 2022

  • The scene outside the Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham, England, in November 1974.

    Potential suspect for 1974 Birmingham pub bombings identified, say police

  • Ray McAnally, right, as prime minister Harry Perkins with Keith Allen as his press secretary Fred Thompson in A Very British Coup, adapted for Channel 4 from Chris Mullin’s book.

    The source material for a classic thriller

March 2022

  • Chris Mullin court case<br>Chris Mullin speaks to the media outside the Old Bailey in London, following his successful challenge to an application by West Midlands Police requiring him to disclose source material dating back to his investigation in 1985 and 1986 relating to the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Picture date: Tuesday March 22, 2022. PA Photo. In his book Error Of Judgement, and a series of documentaries, Mr Mullin, a former MP and minister, helped expose one of the worst miscarriages of justice, leading to the release of the Birmingham Six after their convictions were quashed in 1991. West Midlands Police is now using the Terrorism Act to bring the production order application. See PA story COURTS Mullin. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on public interest: democracy rests on a free press

    Editorial: Chris Mullin’s high court victory is a reminder that journalism must be protected from the baleful gaze of power
  • Chris Mullin

    I had to keep my sources secret, or the Birmingham Six might still be in jail

    Chris Mullin
    My investigation was overwhelmingly in the public interest, says former MP Chris Mullin
  • Displaced Ukrainians on a train heading for Poland. The UN refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have left since Russia's invasion.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Minister admits Ukrainian refugees arriving in UK illegally would risk jail under nationality bill plan – as it happened

    Latest updates: MPs debate Lords amendments to nationality and borders bill

February 2022

  • Chris Mullin in 2019, the year after West Midlands police announced a decision to reinvestigate the case into the former MP.

    Police move to ban reporters from Birmingham Six journalist hearing

  • Duncan Campbell

    British police are hounding a journalist for his sources – it’s vital he resists

    Duncan Campbell

January 2022

  • Chris Mullin, author, journalist and former Labour MP

    Chris Mullin to resist police bid to identify IRA pub bombing sources

    Police believe the author and ex-MP has interviews that could identify IRA member behind the 1974 pub bombings

April 2019

  • Chris Mullin

    Chris Mullin defends refusal to name Birmingham pub bombing suspects

    Families of victims accused former MP of obstruction after inquest into 1974 IRA attacks

March 2019

  • Former Labour MP Chris Mullins at home in Northumberland.

    Books interview
    Chris Mullin: ‘I dedicated the book to Jo Cox’

    The former Labour MP on his political thriller set in post-Brexit Britain and why he’s keen to read David Cameron’s memoirs

February 2019

  • Chris Mullin

    Chris Mullin names Birmingham pub bombings suspects

    Former Labour MP names two of the four men he believes were behind 1974 IRA attacks

December 2018

  • Ray McAnally, right, as Harry Perkins in the 1988 television adaptation of A Very British Coup

    Brexit page-turners are flying off the shelves

    Titles by authors such as Fintan O’Toole, James O’Brien and Jonathan Coe confound bleak consumer trends

August 2018

  • Dominic Raab: ‘What right-minded person stores their books like that, in squared-off stacks on their window sills, open to the blaze of the sun?’

    Perhaps MPs should add the odd novel to their reading lists...

    Alex Clark
    Was Dominic Raab wise to be seen flanked by his books? Your choice of reading is horribly revealing

November 2016

  • Philip Hammond (third from right in front row) and Mark Carney (second from right in front row) at the UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Hammond suggests Trump's protectionism would damage prosperity - Politics live

    Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen
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