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I don't know. I don't think his opponents know either. What is clear is Corbyn is very popular in the Labour party still. What's also clear is Corbyn's opponents have painted themselves into a corner - they need him to crash and burn to be able to claim the electorate have decisively rejected...

Labour are polling more-or-less where they were in 2015 and 2010. They could well increase their share of the vote. The problem for them is that Theresa May's right-wing populism has largely consolidated the UKIP crowd within her party, relegating UKIP from significant players to...

Strong and stable IT in the national interest. I blame Corbyn and the EUSSR

I had a bit of an inkling you might have been sarcastic.

"Stoya, come to Athens the revolution is happening" "We need to restrict immigration now so we can open the borders later on" Truly one of our nation's towering intellects.

There's the total lack of any sort of underlying structure for a coherent left politics too. Some people think that Corbyn can offer a left-platform and people will vote for it. But they won't. Not cos they're stupid, but because they're not that engaged, and you quite quickly run into the...

tbh, Theresa May's biggest enemy at the moment is complacency. The narrative so far is that Jeremy Corbyn is doomed and May a nailed on cert. But even if a plurality of the public prefer May and the Tories to Corbyn and Labour, there's very little to make them enthusiastic about voting for May...

Long piece in the LRB about the EU, Cadbury's and global capitalism. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n08/james-meek/somerdale-to-skarbimierz

I'm concerned about this framing. I suspect, as it inevitably does, that a constant drip-drip-drip of racism is considered fine, but calling the person responsible "a racist" (IMO a legitimate response to that) will lead to warnings and bans. I'm against censorship, though I'm not against...

No, YOUR taxonomies of the ultra-left are boring and irrelevant.

Dunno what the scandal is there. CPGB-ML* are not exactly fans of Corbyn or McDonnell. Here's a pretty damning take on the front page of their website Proletarian Online. * The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) are not to be confused with the Communist Party of Britain...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/beyond-alt-understanding-the-new-far-right.html

"ooh look at me, I get invited to dinner parties" pathetic

Proper trolling is a beautiful thing - an art-form even. It requires infallible patience, a deftness of argument and loads of knowledge. It requires constructing an argument that is both seemingly watertight and reasonable and yet utterly infuriating to your target(s) so that they can't help...

Not to get all pro-DPRK and all, but North Korea have explicitly stated that they have a "no first use" policy but will "respond in kind" to any aggression. They reiterated this policy yesterday: "we will respond to all-out war with all-out war and nuclear war with our style of nuclear attack"...

Good analogy that.

to lump communists in with fascists - i.e. compare those who want humanity's emancipation with those who want its extermination - is disgusting.

I read this on the Rwanda genocide and the role of Western governments, particularly in France, in creating the circumstances that allowed the genocide to happen. Thought about it, given how everyone is shouting "we can't stand idly by" while insisting that the only alternative to standing idly...

I'd have expected them to offer a more unequivocal denial even if they'd done it tbh. Everyone seems very vague at the moment on what's actually happened, and that seems like a poor time for military escalation. It seems pretty likely that the Syrian regime or one of their allies did this, but...

Yeah, but sometimes an willingness to avoid conspiracy theories leads to an uncritical acceptance of the dominant narrative. There are any number of parties in this conflict which have access to, and have probably used, chemical weapon from the Syrian government, regime allied militias, to the...