Traitors to the left
Nick Cohen writes in the New Statesman (which stupidly only allows people to read one story per day, for free, on their website):
Before you go to a left-wing meeting, brace yourself for the likelihood that everyone you meet in the hall will be standing on their head. Do not be surprised to see communists supporting fascism, feminists throwing their arms around misogynists and liberals volunteering to be advocates for tyranny. It’s been like this since 9/11 turned the world upside down, and the temptation for a journalist is to play the cynical reporter and pretend to be unshockable. I try my best to be a hard man, but the shocks keep on coming.
If you only read one piece on the New Statesman site today, make it Cohen’s.
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