Keir Starmer should never be forgiven for backing Corbyn
The funny thing about peaceniks, with their apparently simple grasp of good and bad, is just how cunning they really are. They understand that, to most well-meaning…
Labour is reviving Corbynism with its demand for a windfall tax
But like Corbyn’s proposals in 2019, Starmer’s proposals assume no change in behaviour from companies: a rather unlikely outcome, given the 10 percentage point increase to corporation…
Labour is still operating under the shadow of Jeremy Corbyn
One of the most remarkable things about Jeremy Corbyn’s unexpected leadership of the Labour Party is that it did not result in the kind of civil war…
Starmer can’t be forgiven for backing Corbyn for PM
Whenever I begin to think positively about Sir Keir Starmer, I usually receive a jolt back into reality when I remember that he was only too happy…
Thank God Jeremy Corbyn isn’t in charge
There’s an interesting pattern of dialogue that is provoked on Twitter whenever the subject of the 2019 general election is raised. Those of us who switched from…
Jeremy Corbyn is too much of a narcissist to retire
Do you remember the joy in 2017 when Jeremy Corbyn won a stunning election victory? This was just a year after the divisive referendum had been settled…
The Corbynite rump can’t bear the thought of Labour becoming electable
Conservative MPs weren’t the only people left feeling angry and betrayed by yesterday’s defection to the Labour Party by the Bury South MP, Christian Wakeford. Labour’s Cobynite…
Laura Kuenssberg was no saint – but the Left turned her into a pantomime devil
Her reporting of Corbyn’s defects drove them mad, and culminated, in 2017, in death threats and fears for her safety. It was in that year that the…
Piers Corbyn arrested ‘after call to burn down MPs’ homes’
Piers Corbyn, the anti-lockdown protester, has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging people to burn down MPs’ offices. The Metropolitan Police said a man in his 70s…
Don’t like how Boris is handling the pandemic? Think how much worse it would have been under Corbyn
All right, so the outlook isn’t entirely rosy right now. But let’s try to look on the bright side. Because there’s at least one thought that should…
NHS privatisation is the Left-wing conspiracy theory that refuses to die
This week’s Commons vote on the Health and Care Bill was accompanied by protest rallies outside Parliament, with all the usual suspects present. Zarah Sultana, the continuity-Corbyn…
The best new British politics books to buy for Christmas 2021
Five and a half years after the referendum, arguments about Brexit are still capable of ruining your Christmas lunch. But at least the questions it has reignited…