PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Chris Mullin is an author, journalist, and politician. In the 1980s he led the campaign that resulted in the release of the Birmingham Six. Mullin was a Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 until 2010 and served as a minister in three departments and as Chairman of the Home Affairs select committee. He is the author of four novels, including A Very British Coup which was made into an award-winning television series; three diary collections; a memoir; and Error of Judgement.
Very occasionally a journalist starts an avalanche with a single gunshot: William Howard Russell of The Times on the condition of the British Army in the Crimea in the 1850s; WT Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette on child prostitution in London in the 1890s; a handful of others. Chris Mullin and his TV colleagues belong in the glorious company * The Observer * One of the greatest feats ever achieved by an investigative reporter * Sebastian Faulks, the Independent On Sunday * Whoever planted the bombs in Birmingham...also planted a bomb under the British legal establishment * Robert Harris, Sunday Times *
