The Left

Why, in the face of the evidence, does Jeremy Corbyn believe in the innocence of Jawad Botmeh?

“Given the massive sales of Thomas Piketty’s Capital, can Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the Labour leadership be that much of a surprise?”

Like the Gadarene swine, the Left are hurtling toward destruction

“Jeremy Corbyn is a polite, decent and evidently sincere man encumbered by lunatic beliefs. On BBC Question Time he attributed the beach massacre in Tunisia to ‘austerity'”

Tony Blair has discredited Blairism, enabling a far-left ideologue to gain control of the party despite his grotesque worldview

The Labour leadership candidate’s new young supporters are naive, but his political opponents are intellectually lazy

A plethora of new Left-leaning French magazines show that in France the intellectuals remain socialist

Intellelectualism is something France is famous for — but in today’s globalised world the French have come to doubt themselve

Left-wing politics is focusing too much on superficial categorisation

The Left is paying a heavy price for its cowardice towards Islamist fascism. The state is demanding new powers to deal with the threat