Renew Trident? It’d make more sense to put Dad’s Army on the case | Simon Jenkins

It’s bizarre that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opponents have chosen this useless nuclear missile for their battleground

It brings a tear to the eye. The old times we never thought to see again are back. The talk is of hard left and soft right, of Trots, Bolsheviks and revisionists. Where were you, goes the clever question, not at Marston Moor but at Kronstadt? Where were you when Trotsky took his Red Army against the hapless party dissidents of the Baltic fleet, and mowed them down?

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