“MULLIN banned.” That would be good for even more publicity for the former Tribune editor’s new book. But it’s not quite that good. Chris Mullin is due to give a talk about his diary A View From the Foothills (see the special offer on page 2) at next month’s Readers and Writers festival, sponsored by Lambeth council. Alas, the council’s eagle-eyed lawyers have swooped and ordered that all reference to the event be dropped from the festival brochure on the grounds that the council cannot be seen to be promoting political meetings during the run-up to the European elections. MPs can refit their houses at the taxpayers’ expense, but the inclusion of a book of observations on politics is airbrushed out of a festival brochure. The meeting will go ahead, it’s just that it will have to be publicised by Samizdat.
