That Corbyn fella...

Nick Cohen is not a journalist I can ignore

I suspect you're not really trying.

I can very easily ignore The Spectator and everything that has ever been written in it.

99.9994% of the British public manage to as well.

I can very easily ignore The Spectator and everything that has ever been written in it.

Obviously you mean the post 1714 Spectator.

#AddisonandSteele4evainourhartz

It's just not the same.

It was a clever joke to show how few fucks I give about the magazine. #honest

I can very easily ignore The Spectator

I read it regularly, along with the Grauniad, the Times, Private Eye and occasionally the New Statesman. It's impossible to find dispassionate journalism, part of the fun is sifting through the hyperbole and moralising to get a sense of what the reality might be. (if there is such a thing as reality. Sometimes I think perhaps there's just stories) Of the papers listed above, the spectator contains some of the most repugnant opinions, but also some of the most entertaining and intelligent debating. There's is also a fair amount of entirely non-patisan reporting in it, including the reviews at the back.

How do you find time to fit lufguss in to all that reading?

And wot no Strike! ?

Anyway, some pretty strong support for Corbyn here from WWII vet and writer Harery Leslie Smith

https://twitter.com/Harryslaststand?lang=en-gb

I'm heartened that he sees the national anthem as a non-issue. Perhaps Corbyn hasn't alienated the whole of the traditional working class after all.

"As a RAF veteran of WW2 I'm not offended by Corbyn not singing #nationalanthem but I am offended by politicians who sell guns to tyrants"

Hasn't Corbyn been incarcerated yet?

I mean, it's been a good 5 days now and as a threat to national security he has neither brought about glorious revolution nor dampened the proles enthusiasm for hard liquor and self abuse let alone force fed the capitalist puppeteers running the ex-industrial bloc the fragments of shredded decommissioned nukes.

I'm getting bored now.

Bring back Ed and his biblical slabs and longing looks at the camera. He'll sing whatever you like if you don't talk to Dave on the school bus.

Ed was so shit I quite warmed to him toward the end. People complained he was patronising and moralising but I think he was just a bit loopy, in his own little world, which I kind of relate to.

longing looks at the camera

https://vine.co/v/eT7DW3QK3Wq

McDonnell and Salmond on question time.

Perry good. Elizabeth Truss came across like a bit of a bitch.

That cunt from the Telegraph:

Except he ain't nice. He's a cunt

Just watched QT on iplayer. Mcdonnel came across very well, he's someone I could trust and like. Sadly the explanation for Corbyn not singing the national anthem will sound to most like an excuse. Salmond is right, it was a silly thing to do.

It's a shit song where you sing about an imaginary arsehole saving an over privileged arsehole, the guy doesn't care for either and no one should care if he sings or not. We've already had days of other smears to get riled up over since anyway.

no one should care

Yes but lots of people do, and they decide who gets to be prime minister. It would be great to change their minds, but it's not going to happen.

If he'd sung it I bet they'd all be like 'what's that atheist republican doing singing about god saving the queen, the hypocrit?'

Man did what he believed, Salmond is wrong, do what you think is right and let those that agree follow you.

Testify!

Man did what he believed, Salmond is wrong, do what you think is right and let those that agree follow you.

=Bring on tory rule. Corbyn has backtracked and now says he usually sings the anthem, and will do so in future, so he clearly realises this.

I'm feeling better already.

:/

Fuck. He's chucking in his principles for populism already. Tony Benn will be turning in his grave. I'm going back to voting Socialist Worker Party.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-in-new-row-as-he-snubs-england-s-big-rugby-world-cup-opener-a2950931.html

Socialist scrum

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Seems inevitable given that you introduce the first ever shadow cabinet with over 50% females on it and still get branded a chauvinist pig... I can't imagine the intensity of scrutiny and focus he must be feeling at the moment.