News about Chris Mullin

As he brings the heat to a postgame interview, Draymond Green calls out studio host for criticizing him after his NBA suspension: 'I'm shocked you're talking to me.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 1, 2024
In a postgame interview with NBC Sports Bay Area, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green turned up the heat. After the Warrior was suspended earlier this year, Green wasn't too impressed with some derogatory remarks made by studio host Bonta Hill. After Golden State defeated the New York Knicks, Chris Mullin and Festus Ezeli, Green didn't even allow the host to finish his first question with Hill seated alongside him.

Anarchy at the Athenaeum! An unexpected pop culture war has wreaked havoc on Pall Mall's 200-year-old club. Traditionalists who accuse modernisers of 'clamorous priggery' on one hand. On the other hand, the right-on commission is accusing bigotry opponents

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 14, 2023
Chris Mullin's 1982 book A Very British Coup has a scene set in a gentlemen's club. 'Askeptaeum television sets were banned from the Athenaeum,' the narrator says.' When times change, how times change. Mullin's words, the Athenaeum, one of London's grandest outposts, has not only been ushered into the twentieth century, but is also dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Since the organization, which admitted women only in 2002, no one was allowed to conduct a study of its equality and diversity policies, it is now in the middle of a bitter culture war. Richard Davenport-Hines (pictured), a scholar and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, characterized the modernisers' changes as a "doctrinal takeover." In Richard Davenport-Hines' view, the piece's villain is not so much the club chairman, the admittedly right-on Dame Ann Limb (pictured), but her colleagues on the ruling committee.

PETER HITCHENS: I wish someone else would ask this: What if Lucy Letby is not guilty?

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 23, 2023
The horror can lead us to mistrust. I angrily slammed Chris Mullin's bid for the release of the Birmingham Six, an Irishman who were wrongly found guilty of the 1974 IRA bombings in the city. I was so angry about the murder's filthy cruelty that I was unable to understand the prosecution's defects that I didn't get straight. I'm sorry to Mr Mullin, but I've discovered that our justice system isn't as effective as we like to believe.

Since no one faces charges related to the atrocity, anger from the families of Birmingham pub bombing victims has been announced

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 22, 2023
Following the news that no one will face charges related to the atrocity, the families of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings expressed their indignation on Sunday. Despite being identified by lawyers and confessing to involvement on television, the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a lawsuit against a perpetrator. We have been let down and treated with nothing but contempt for decades,' Julie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine was one of the 21 people killed in the 1974 IRA attack, said. 'This is just the latest example of that.' In two city centre pubs on November 21, 1974, two20 people were wounded after the devices exploded within minutes of each other. The Birmingham Six were found guilty of the murders, but the sentences were overturned 16 years later as one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Nothing less than a coup is taking place in the United Kingdom

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 26, 2023
Author Chris Mullin published A Very British Coup, a political thriller that later developed into a riveting TV drama series. It was based on a plot to destabilize Harry Perkins, Labour Prime Minister, who was swept to office by a landslide victory on a hard-Left manifesto. Perkins is eventually coerced to resign by the conspirators, which include Americans, the British Establishment, the Right-wing tabloid Press, and tumultuous opponents in his own party. Although today's societal landscape looks very different, some aspects of it haven't changed. Mullin's book and the rolling coup taking place against this Conservative government are similar.

Big East: How the conference reincarnated itself 10 years on from 'death' of original

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 11, 2023
JAKE FENNER of MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: The original Big East Conference is dead, but it will never die. The 'old' Big East Conference held its final tournament this week, with all of its founding members (except UConn). It was the last time basketball fans in the United States would see some of the most legendary programs in the world's Most Popular Arena: Madison Square Garden, the Mecca of College Basketball, in the United States. The Big East Conference combined some of America's top college basketball programs into one supergroup that represented flashiness, brutality, and beauty, which was never to be overflowing. Some people were defiant to the heat when the conference began in 2013.

Tim Hardaway apologizes for distasteful 'rape' comment during live broadcast of Warriors-Spurs game

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 15, 2022
Hardaway was talking about a Draymond Green block when he said: 'So y'all thought that was great D? I thought he was just raping him. They may have contacted the police on that issue,' I believe.' Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond, who appeared in the broadcasting booth alongside Hardaway for NBC Sports Bay's 'Run TMC Takeover', did not respond to the comment. However, Hardaway released a groveling apology on-air after the Warriors had put the Spurs out of sight in the fourth quarter before going on to win the game by 132-95. 'I used a poor choice of words earlier in the program,' the former point guard said. I want to apologize for that.' Let's get back to the game and see if we win by 30 points and go home happy.'