Yves here. Your humble blogger is not remotely expert enough on UK politics to discuss the long-overdue departure of Starmer and the new Labor leadership contest in any detail. Nevertheless, this article has some points that strike me as sour notes and will hopefully stir informed discussion. For instance, it makes a naive comparison between the decline in Corbyn’s popularity ratings and that of Starmer, when Corbyn (like Sanders but more obviously so) was on the receiving end of a massive media campaign against him, centered on bogus charges of anti-Semitism. An article sent by Micael T may serve as...