The Spectator

Corbyn’s useful idiots

Conservatives have resorted to name-calling and policy-­copying: an unedifying combination

issue 24 February 2018

The news that Jeremy Corbyn met a Czechoslovakian agent three times during the 1980s, when the Cold War was still very much in progress, has come as a shock to some. But it should not come as a surprise. What we have discovered so far fits entirely with everything we know about Corbyn’s character and his sympathies.

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