Britain’s Daily Mail turns its attention away from the latest discovery by a woman “who has been investigating spiritual attachment to haunted puppets for 17 years” to focus on an even creepier phenomenon, Jeremy Corbyn, the Jurassic socialist seemingly set, bar some upset, to win the leadership of the opposition Labour Party next month:

The rebellious backbencher, whose has never been a minister or held a shadow ministerial role, has backed a host of left-field causes including a ban on ‘war toys’ for boys, homeopathy in the NHS and a ban on working in hot weather.
In 2003 Mr Corbyn signed a motion [in the House of Commons] attacking the ‘lack of gratitude’ for carrier pigeons during the Second World War. It added: ‘This House believes that humans represent the most obscene, perverted, cruel, uncivilised and lethal species ever to inhabit the planet and looks forward to the day when the inevitable asteroid slams into the earth and wipes them out thus giving nature the opportunity to start again.’

The addendum, I think we can safely assume, was tongue-in-cheek, but his embrace of junk science and attack on war toys (complete with a call for a ban: is there anything that the left don’t want to regulate) are yet more reminders of who Corbyn is.

Oh yes, there’s this:

Mr Corbyn also backed a motion welcoming England’s success in the 1996 European [soccer] Championships but criticised the ‘jingoism and nationalism in the pages of sections of the tabloid press’. It added it was ‘reminiscent of Hitler’s use of sport to enhance his evil regime in the 1930s’.

There’s Godwin and there’s Godwin…