Jeremy Corbyn

• AS the author of The Socialist League in the 1930s (Labour Left then), I have been delighted by Jeremy Corbyn talking in moral terms about right and wrong, calm but passionate, plain-spoken, socialist terms about fundamental conditions in the UK.

His message is coherent: Be yourself. Don’t dissemble. However you are appallingly demonised, treat the predominantly reactionary media rituals with a gentle detachment and mockery, which chimes with how the UK majority actually think.

What’s wrong? We all know: lack of affordable housing, crisis-ridden hospitals, profiteering train companies, foodbanks etc. The socialist perspective is about the many not the few. Haven’t felt so enthralled since the 1960s.

MIKE BOR
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