Like any political leader, Corbyn had his flaws. But the greatest threat to the established order is that history will remember him as a fundamentally decent, honest and principled leader who stood, and almost won, on a moderate platform of economic justice and climate renewal...

So long as that essential truth remains even on the margins of public discourse, so does the possibility of social democracy in Britain. That is why it must be relentlessly twisted, maligned and buried...

and why any mainstream journalist or columnist will be rewarded for dishing out 'insider gossip' based on the accounts of sources with obvious agendas...

and why they will risk their job - as @OborneTweets did - if they dare to interrogate the real questions or examine the real evidence.. of how a political and media class spectacularly closed ranks to avert the threat of genuine progressive social change...