In defence of Corbyn
The new Labour leader is easily mocked. But he has done us the service of expressing, in Parliament, a widespread mood of febrile dissatisfaction.
What Corbyn thinks about education
It’s no surprise that he plans a massive centralisation programme, regardless of the cost to children or taxpayers.
What Corbyn thinks about foreign policy
From the Falklands to the Middle East, he’s reliably on the wrong side.
What Corbyn thinks about work and welfare
From opposing the benefits cap to seeking to squeeze more tax out of small businesses, his ideas would destroy jobs.
What Corbyn thinks about economics
From a love of higher spending and borrowing, through to higher taxes and mass nationalisations, even his colleagues think he would be a disaster.
What Corbyn thinks about defence
From abolishing the Army to withdrawing from NATO, here are the five key things you need to know about the Leader of the Opposition.
The Labour MP who says that hate helps to drive him – and his colleagues
That’s Toby Perkins of Chesterfield. And they claim that we’re the Nasty Party.
Labour has failed itself and the nation – eleven observations on Jeremy Corbyn’s victory
The Opposition is a fundamentally changed Party – which means this is only the beginning of a ride that will be both funny and deadly serious.
From 1979 to now, Labour’s declining powers of self-interrogation
If Corbyn triumphs today, it will be because his party stopped criticising itself in any meaningful way.
Khan’s win: Good for Corbyn, Goldsmith…and, sadly, communalism in London
He is in no sense an extremist – far from it. But his candidacy is more likely to divide London’s voters along confessional lines than Jowell’s would have been.
Those voters who abandoned Labour in May could be lost to them for the long term
Lord Ashcroft’s polling gives some insight into how sticky the defectors might be. It isn’t pretty reading for their new leader.
Corbyn may not win – is anyone prepared for that eventuality?
If Yvette Cooper, for example, pipped him to the post, she could do the Government damage on the migration issue.
The BBC denied ‘The Great European Disaster Movie’ was EU-funded: that was untrue
Now the Corporation must explain how the public came to be misled.
It wouldn’t make sense for Corbyn to moderate as leader
It seems unlikely he could tack far enough to the centre to matter without completely alienating his power base and repudiating his own beliefs.
Cameron must think Corbyn will win
Hence the Prime Minister’s warning that Corbyn cannot be trusted with national security, and Betty Boothroyd’s that Labour is galloping over a precipice.