Blair's memoirs can wait, Mullin's diary has me enthralled

Former Labour MP Chris Mullin's diaries offer juicy insights into Gordon Brown's intemperance and paranoia-I shall get round to reading Tony Blair's book simply because, like Everest, it is there. In the meantime I suspect I've been getting more pleasure out of the second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries, Decline And Fall. Like Blair, Mullin - a former minister and then backbench MP who quit at the election - was both appalled by and admiring of Gordon Brown.There's a terrible story from June 2008 when Brown goes to the Chinese embassy to sign the condolence book for earthquake victims, then learns that David Cameron is outside, waiting his turn. The PM flies into a rage, stalks back to his car, ignoring the Tory leader, pummels the headrest in front of him, making his protection officer's head bounce back and forth, while raving about treachery and demanding "Who did this to me?" He blames a conspiracy of the Tories, the Chinese and the Foreign Office.Did he imagine that any voter was