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Reshuffling ministers annually is no way to govern

Chris Mullin 13 July 2019 9:00 am

‘Annual reshuffles are crazy,’ remarked one of the prime minister’s most trusted advisers in July 1999 as I hovered outside…

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Alan Johnson: the rock and roll years

Chris Mullin 15 September 2018 9:00 am

We’ve had Alan Johnson the lad from the slums of north Kensington, Alan Johnson the postman and Alan Johnson Member…

Alastair Campbell’s mix of football and terrorism makes for an accomplished thriller

Chris Mullin 3 March 2018 9:00 am

Alastair Campbell is a man of many parts.   Journalist, spin doctor extraordinaire, diarist and now novelist. For this, his third…

Welcome to the age of media feeding frenzies

Chris Mullin 9 December 2017 9:00 am

Tabloid-style hysteria has infected political news coverage

Don’t hold your breath for my follow-up to A Very British Coup

Chris Mullin 19 August 2017 9:00 am

To the Business School at the University of Edinburgh to be interviewed on the theme of ‘Great Political Disasters’. Main…

Jeremy Corbyn for PM?

Chris Mullin 3 June 2017 9:00 am

He could follow in the footsteps of Harry Perkins

Chris Mullin’s diary: The air lobby always gets what it wants

Chris Mullin 8 October 2016 9:00 am

Any day now, the government will make its long delayed announcement on whether a third runway should be built at…

Jeremy Corbyn: authenticity in spades

What’s next for Comrade Corbyn?

Chris Mullin 20 February 2016 9:00 am

‘Ah, Jeremy,’ remarked Tony Blair at a smart dinner party in Islington not long before he became prime minister, ‘he…

Chris Mullin’s diary: The unexpected wisdom of Donald Trump

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Chris Mullin’s diary: Murdoch’s men couldn’t face even a fictional Corbyn victory

Chris Mullin 19 September 2015 8:00 am

With four days to go until the result of Labour’s leadership election, a call from the Sunday Times. Would I…

Keeping the lid on

Chris Mullin 16 June 2010 12:00 am

For all of the nine years that he worked, first as official spokesman for Tony Blair and then as Director of Communications for the government, Alastair Campbell was obliged to defend a huge lie: that all was well at the heart of the New Labour project when, manifestly, it was not.

‘It’s the PM for you.’

Chris Mullin 11 March 2010 12:00 am

Chris Mullin MP offers prospective junior ministers a survival guide to the ‘foothills’ of government

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