We may come to look on midday June 15, 2015, as a turning point in British history, for that was when nominations closed to select the leader of the Labour Party and perhaps our next prime minister. Jeremy Corbyn got enough signatures to make the ballot with just three minutes to spare but John McDonnell, his campaign manager, now says he was relaxed that they would do it. The night before, McDonnell went to see King John at the Globe theatre and it put him in a good mood. “A very bloody play, blood all over the place,” he tells The Spectator. George Orwell noted in 1942 that it was “extraordinarily up to date” with all its “intrigues and double-crossings, non-aggression pacts, quislings and people…

Source: The Times December 09, 2017 00:00 UTC