The FACT is that the Communist Party is not a revolutionary outfit. Very checkable. Checking things before you post them has never been your strong point. And it looks like the legs have well and truly dropped off your spy yarn, by the way. Told you so. Anything else juicy in the Mail today, Iains?

DMcG, I doubt whether the EU will have the time to bother much with what the leader of the opposition says unless there's an election in the offing. What Jeremy has to do is (a) show leadership rather than apparent indecision and paralysis, (b) show that the party is distinct from the Tories on brexit, (c) show that he realises that his lukewarm attitude to the EU is looking more and more misplaced as these non-negotiations fail to progress, and decide to put the interests of the country first. At the very least, that means staying in the single market and THE customs union. "Control of our borders" has become an irrelevance, as we've seen net migration from the EU plummet and unfilled NHS jobs reach a hundred thousand - and the one thing we will never control is the number of people who leave, taking their skills with them. "Control of our laws" has always been a red herring as we agree fully with 97% of the thousands of EU laws, have played a big part in drawing them up and have the power of veto over major issues we don't like (such an EU army, which could never happen on our watch). It will take years or decades to strike deals with protectionist countries such as the US and China, and they will end up being not very good deals, and our financial services sector will be severely compromised. It's remarkable how many people on the left, mostly once hostile to the EU (me included) have seen the light about what's unquestionably best for this country and for Europe, that is, the UK having a strong and influential role within the EU, including helping to lead its reform.

Baroness Warsi, who is that rare beast, a passionate and honest Tory who I actually don't mind listening to (and about whom I've often wondered why she's a Tory at all), said on Any Questions last night (33 minutes in) that the political leaders in this country should get round a table, eschew all the lies that have been peddled by both sides and hammer out a policy that is in the interests of this country, not in the interests of any of their parties. I heartily agree with her and I hope that will happen. As I've said before, I do a lot of hoping on this. Any Questions is repeated at 1.10 today on Radio 4.