Some of the criticisms that have been levelled at Corbyn in the past couple of days are unfair. He is neither a Communist nor a “threat to national security.” He is a self-described socialist. In his republicanism, his anti-colonialism, his borderline pacifism, and his suspicion of big business, he represents an old and honorable, if occasionally misguided, strand of British radicalism, which extends back to Bertrand Russell, Keir Hardie, and beyond.
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