Daniel Hannan: Castro. Chávez – and now Morales. That these tyrants are Corbyn’s heroes should make us very, very frightened.

His attitude ought to worry us. I mean that literally. All these men believed that the end justified the means.

Andrew Lewer: We must break with the EU’s failed policy towards Cuba and Venezuela

This case is an early litmus test of the character and intentions of our new Government.

Kristian Niemietz: How, and how not, to use the ‘V-word’ when debating the Left

Don’t pray Venezuela in aid when trying to counter run-of-the-mill left-wing policies – it cheapens the real case.

Chloe Westley: Pursuing happiness doesn’t guarantee finding it

Governments are more likely to help create conditions for it by seeking economic growth, rather than well-being.

The defectors are wrong. The Conservatives aren’t shifting to the right. They are mired in the mixed middle.

No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.

Thornberry can’t “guarantee” her foreign policy won’t indulge human rights abusers when Corbyn does exactly that

The Shadow Foreign Secretary is making pledges her leader seems unlikely to honour.

WATCH: Chakrabarti says situation in Venezuela is ‘unacceptable’

“I think it’s incumbent for me as someone of the left to call out governments and states of the left.”

Iain Dale: Self-indulgent Remain Ministers, self-deluded ERG MPs

Plus: My exclusive insight into that May Corbyn summit. Why does the BBC indulge Brok? And: Cooper trooper – not so super.

Garvan Walshe: Can civil war be avoided in Venezuela?

A wise US president with a clever plan would be able to reduce the risks. But this one may well squander the opportunity for a peaceful return to democracy.

WATCH: Gapes calls for solidarity with Juan Guaidó

“The people of Venezuela do not need the weasel words…from assorted Stalinists, Trotskyists, antisemites and members of Labour’s front bench.”

Alastair Thompson: Corbyn – an apologist for the tyrant who rules Venezuela by fear. Let a Commons vote put him on the spot.

Let’s see if Labour stands with Venezuela’s oppressed. For what party could truly say that it supports labour, while lending support to the butchery of labourers?

WATCH: Hunt – “It is clear that Nicolas Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela”

The Foreign Secretary says that anybody who thinks of the country’s socialist government as a model should consult their TV screens.

Chloe Westley: Jordan Peterson, not modern feminists, speaks for me

Peterson rejects collectivist doctrines, and instead emphasises the importance of the individual. This is why so many people say they have been inspired by his work.

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

Too often, the West allows itself to be propagandised by hostile tyrants

In addition to the old ‘useful idiots’, the Kims and Castros of the world know they can rely on the aid of genuine idiots, too. We ought to know better.