More ‘out’ than ‘on’
Glen Newey: Chris Mullin’s Diaries, 27 August 2009
A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
by Chris Mullin.
Profile, 590 pp., £20, March 2009,978 1 84668 223 0 Show More
by Chris Mullin.
Profile, 590 pp., £20, March 2009,
“... he was right.’ The sheep – the farmyard’s lumpen-proletariat – have failed. The best hope lies in the foxes: furry class warriors, voteless and mute. Mullin is awed by power as well as alienated. The diaries display what might be called the Yahweh syndrome, the self-imposed embargo on calling the supreme being by name. In Alan Clark’s ... ”