Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed to the Labour Leadership
by Rosa Prince (Biteback, £20)
The Jeremy Corbyn conundrum is best explained by Thomas More’s only recorded joke. The title of More’s Utopia is a play on Greek words. Does More mean eutopia, the good society, or outopia, nowhere, the impossible society? It is the challenge to every socialist dreamer that ever was. Can they really imagine the nation voting for their revolutionary nirvana? The Corbyn of Rosa Prince’s necessarily provisional biography is a man who appears to be heading for the same place whence he came, which is to say nowhere.