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Mind your language

Why would Jeremy Corbyn want to be credible when he can be incredible?

The favourite compliment of Labour leadership candidates is a grudging sort of praise at best

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

In a wonderfully dry manual of theology on my husband’s bookshelves, written in Latin and printed in Naples in the 1830s, there is a discussion of whether ‘rustics and idiots’ are supported in their belief by ‘motives of credibility’, such as miracles. The same question has been asked about belief in Jeremy Corbyn, except that the city stands in for the country, and the idiots are often useful ones.

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