Also: Hurricane Corbyn hits Glasgow, Cardiff and (West) Belfast; SNP councillor quits after racist abuse; and hard-line separatists set up new Scottish party.
He appeals to the popular demand for authenticity – it would be dangerous to write him off.
Whoever they may elect as their new leader, it’s clear that we Conservatives must be ready to fight the battles of the 1970s and 1980s all over again.
“…can we say that if he won, and after due process, he’d like to see a far more profound version of the clause in the party’s constitution? Jez we can.”
Either Corbyn wins, and pursues niche crusades, or one of the others wins and is trapped in a party with furious Corbynites.
Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t think defending the nation is ‘socially useful’. Just as with CND in the Cold War, our enemies will be cheering him on.
Plus: Tracey Crouch slam dunks John Humphrys. Another failure for the Bow Group’s blunderkind. And: If Corbyn doesn’t win, what job will he get?
Labour’s independent election review finds an electorate which wants an activist government that lives within its means. Where have we heard that before?
The other candidates, capitalist lackies, counter-revolutionaries and secret Tories all, are struggling in our poll.
The last attempt at reviving the Social Democrat experiment was New Labour. Now those same people face exile under Corbyn.
The Blairite enforcer called the Islington MP’s nominators “morons”, but the journalist believes that the Labour right are to blame for the party’s woes.
The Chancellor’s move onto their territory in the Budget means the gap is, at least intellectually, far from unbridgeable for marooned Blairites.
But how vulnerable are we to suffering Labour’s fate? And what can we do to guard against it?
Plus: Farewell, Ivan Massow. How Eric Pickles cost me £50,000. David Laws’ new book. And: the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is my fault.
If Paddy Ashdown hasn’t already eaten it, you can be sure he will be wearing his thinking cap and trying to revitalise ‘The Project’.