Month: August 2017

It does not take a Nostradamus to predict that this year’s will have to be the craziest Labour conference since 1985 or, quite possibly, ever. On the one hand you will have hubris: bright-eyed young Corbynite new recruits, feeling buoyed and excited by the party’s “success” in the general election (i.e. we did not lose… Continue reading Labour’s life-support conference approaches

It is not for months but, in fact, years that some of us have tried to draw attention to the pathological infatuation of Labour’s hard left (and even some of the soft left) to the Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chávez. The attraction was straightforward: a kind of “Cuba-lite”, where in contrast defenders could always point… Continue reading Venezuela: a Corbynite touchstone. An unmitigated human and democratic disaster