On Tuesday afternoon, Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the British Labour Party, delivered a long speech at the party’s annual conference. His remarks left his audience cheering, and even garnered grudging praise from some of his critics. Having been portrayed in some quarters as a fire-breathing Marxist and a danger to the security of the United Kingdom, the sixty-six-year-old leftist sounded more like the Archbishop of Canterbury, defending the values of fairness, social justice, and solidarity with the downtrodden, and calling for “a kinder politics, a more caring society.”
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Published on October 01, 2015 08:24