I apologise to regular readers for my silence since the General Election. It was a very difficult time, and as you can imagine, I was devastated by the result. I had so nearly defected to the Tories, you see, and would have if only I’d thought they had a chance of winning. No-one could have predicted that result. Least of all Mr. Cameron, who did everything in his power to avoid it.

Yesterday though, I couldn’t have been happier that instead, I came home to Labour. It’s where I belong of course, and if our new leader’s speech to Conference was anything to go by, I think we’re in for a marvellous ride back to government. Over the next four years, to quote Jeremy’s somewhat contemporary style of speaking, we’re going to build a kinda politics.

I celebrated his inaugural Conference speech by delivering a short appreciation of the leader that evening to my fellow lefties at an off-off-fringe-fringe event in Brighton, the theme of which was CORBYN MANIA.