Month: May 2016

A country with a population half that of Britain is currently collapsing. Its president was defeated in the country’s parliamentary elections last December and, in the true style of demagogic leaders the world over, finally declared a state of emergency ten days ago in an attempt to cling onto power, backed by the country’s army.… Continue reading The Corbynite take on Venezuela tells you all you need to know about the leadership’s judgement

The leader’s office spin operation began long before the elections, because everyone knew they would be bad. The objective was simple: essentially, anything, anything at all to try and make them look other than the disaster most expected. For example as Dan Hodges, sometime of this parish, pointed out, the Corbyn team decided on a… Continue reading The results are in on Corbyn’s first few months. No matter how you spin it, they’re terrible

My umpteenth piece at the Independent – in this case the iPaper – is about the mayoral election in London, and it’s here. A little of the nuance got lost in the titling, but hey. This was my original title.

Political historians will one day chronicle last week. In their texts, Thursday will surely turn out to have been a watershed day for Labour. It was the day that the party could no longer ignore the fact that some of its senior people not only tolerate anti-Semites in their ranks, but can even slide into… Continue reading Corbyn and Livingstone cannot now both survive within the Labour party