Norfolk will deliver a lecture entitled "In defence of journalism" on 6 November at City's Oliver Thompson theatre, beginning at 6.30pm (doors open 6pm).
The result was a massive and motley three-volume collection of quotations, unacknowledged citations, and personal observations entitled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787).
Yet here was Mullin – 65 next month – delivering a lecture (entitled In Defence of Politics) to a great and good audience at St Thomas' hospital, just across Westminster bridge from his former haunts.
In 1958, a publication entitled "Home Defence and the Farmer" promised that agricultural bureaucrats would visit farms as soon as radioactive dust had stopped falling in a few days, it was assumed.That contrasts sharply with American advice, which is imbued with a pioneering spirit.
This reflection, has in part, been inspired by an essay I read by GK Chesterton, the less well-known contemporary of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, entitled A Defence of Rash Vows which made me think about the promises that we make, both to ourselves and to others, and how seriously we take them.
He was a powerful, forceful writer, and as he wrote in a 1997 essay entitled In Defence Of My Work, "The space surrounding my work is critical to it: as much thought has gone into the installation as into a piece itself.
His new book is entitled "Freedom: A Defence".
In a document entitled Plan for Defence Diversification, Corbyn sets out a strategy to protect the jobs and skills of those who work on Trident, and in the defence sector more widely, by investing in "socially productive" hi-tech industry and infrastructure projects.
The MoD spokesman said that Britain, as the host nation for the summit, was entitled to promote its defence industry.
