CORBYN’S CONSPIRACISTS

According to recent polling by YouGov, 28% of Jeremy Corbyn supporters strongly agree with the classically paranoid conspiracy theory formulation “the world is controlled by a secretive elite”. That’s more than one in four, compared to just 13% of the population at large. The average Jeremy Corbyn supporter, in other words, is more than twice […]

THE LEFT WILL EAT ITSELF: AN OBSERVATION

As someone committed to seeing the Conservative Party removed from power, I have been watching the Labour leadership contest with a sense of mounting panic. Alongside the glaring lack of an outstanding mainstream candidate, there is the surreal rise of Jeremy Corbyn – morbid symptoms of a Party seemingly hell bent on oblivion. Since the […]