With the registration period now closed, Labour members are sitting tight, waiting for their ballot papers to arrive. A period of quiet, sober reflection now begins, as members decide who they want to see face off the Tories.
But not everyone is seeing it that way. The Scottish Labour Young Socialists – who say they are ‘fighting for a new, subversive politics’ – are holding an event in honour of comrade Corbyn.
Under Trumpism the old certainties no longer hold and are starting to ebb away. Do illegal immigrants really have an inviolable and unlimited right of appeal against deportation? Probably not. Is America honour-bound to defend small nations against aggressors? It isn’t. People don’t really believe in the ruling pieties anymore yet they do not know
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