Ernst Stavro Blofeld – if he existed – would no doubt have raised an expensive glass of schnapps to Comrade Corbyn, from the avuncular gloom of his volcano base.
Also: Labour MPs promising on the doorstep not to ally with SNP; more bad news for Welsh Labour as support for more powers slumps; Irish Government legalises drugs by accident.
Also: DUP veto gay marriage a third time; ex-IRA man accuses Adams of giving him orders; and Scottish teachers sack general secretary after three weeks.
Also: Lessons for unionists as Canada emerges from the shadow of separatism; and MoD accused of leaking against the Welsh government.
Also: Ex-‘supergrass’ levels fresh allegations at McGuinness, and Sinn Fein conference hijacked by IRA victims’ Twitter protest.
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. "Once an IRA member, then Sinn Fein's deputy first minister in Northern Ireland and now Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead" (Belfast Telegraph) As the old saying has it, you couldn't make it up.