A dressed-down Jeremy Corbyn walks into Angel’s Cafe near Finsbury Park, and puts his yellow cap on a table. He orders a cappuccino, and cheerfully tells his aide that the Left-wing academic Noam Chomsky is still alive, despite rumours he’d died the night before. It reminds him of a line by Mark Twain: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
A supporter comes over to wish Corbyn good luck in the election in two weeks’ time. He’s standing against the Labour Party he led to humiliating defeat in 2019. Less than five years later, the party looks set to win a majority under new leader Sir Keir Starmer, while Corbyn has been blocked from standing.
