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What Corbyn’s far left has in common with Trump and the Brexit right

Even though Jeremy Corbyn and the men and women who support him are often shabby and occasionally reactionary figures, the rarest criticism you hear of them is criticism from the left. Political commentary in Britain runs like water through pipes. Conventional opinion holds that if you are left wing, you support the Labour leadership, and if you are not, you don’t.

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Nick Cohen
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Nick Cohen is the author of What's Left and You Can't Read This Book.

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