Labour, under Corbyn, has lost its moral compass

Corbyn worked as a presenter for Iranian state television. In other words, he was a willing propagandist of a regime that executes homosexuals, imprisons trade unionists and persecutes religious and ethnic minorities. This would have once disqualified him from membership of 'the Left'. Now he represents the 'moral' Left.

Corbyn makes excuses for the avowedly orthodox- conservative, privately kleptomaniac and demonstrably imperialist Putin regime Once support for Putin's combination of faith, fraud and force would have been anathema to the left. Now it is the 'moral' left.

Corbyn defends the most grotesque anti-Semites: fantasists, who believed Jews eat Christian children, and were the diabolical power behind 9/11, the slave trade and every other catastrophe   Once this attempt to destroy Labour's reputation for anti-fascism and anti-racism would have disqualified Corbyn from the left. Now eminent Oxbridge leftists hail such 'moral clarity' as the future of the left.

If it is, it is not a future any moral person should want any part of, however much money they earn.

Nick Cohen:The Spectator