There’s one thing that worries me about Jeremy Corbyn. As much as I like his old-left, communitarian politics, my fear is that such views have become too unfashionable. Like him I believe in the state, in society, in the community; yet in the eighties that bitch thatcher moved us all to a more individualistic paradigm. The damage she did may well be irreversible; we now all care only for ourselves, see ourselves as separate entities and resent contributing to the greater good. If that is true, then the p’tahk Blair is right and the electorate will ignore corbyn and we’ll have another tory government in 2020. Thus while my heart wants corbyn as labour leader, my head worries that people have become too self-centred to see the wisdom of his views. His politics may hark back to the 1960s, but that’s a damn sight better than the 1880’s politics of the Tories.