Jeremy Corbyn was the traduced laughing-stock leader of a broken and divided opposition

Where once the Blairites seemed unshakeable in their power, their ruthless sodality has finally bitten the dust in Labour's leaership elections of 2015

MacDonald’s ministry kept its sights low, noting that a minority government could not be expected to achieve all that much. Such nugatory reforms as it did offer included improvements to housing and welfare provision

The strike, the largest in British history, was adroitly encircled and dismantled by a government having wide recourse to emergency measures, police and military crackdowns and a stentorian campaign of vilification.

In the interstices of economic decline there had arisen unprecedented levels of poverty

Blair drew upon his immense reserves of contumely for public error to issue a counterblast as imperious as it was self-serving.

it was an extremely odd moment to raise a recondite historical discussion

Politically, their background was heteroclite. The biggest chunk of UKIP voters were ex-Tories

One of Corbyn’s virtues is that he is not overly impressed by that reified category we call ‘public opinion’.