If Jeremy Corbyn wants to be prime minister, the biggest battle he’ll have to face is with himself

Should the Labour leader wish to stay, as it seems, he has less than a month before Boris Johnson’s arrival in No 10 to ponder the choice between dogma and compromise

Other than a cushy open prison for the criminally incompetent and an overpriced care home for the certifiably egomaniacal, God alone knows what British politics is right now.

But we know what it’s not. It isn’t simple. On a dating site, it would skip “it’s complicated” and search for the box headed: “it’s mind-blowingly confused”.

With no certainties and few likelihoods, anyone who claims to see the future is a rampant genius or a deluded fool. And there aren’t a lot of the former about.