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There can be few politicians in the post war era who have excited so much comment and yet achieved so very little that is either worthwhile or noteworthy than Jeremy Bernard Corbyn.

Today, Mr Corbyn attends his final Shadow Cabinet meeting. No doubt there will be plenty of farewell cards from his adoring colleagues. Hopefully, there will be more than few resignation letters too. As a collective group, they have been spectacularly poor at stemming the advance of the reactionary right. The only two who can reasonably hold their heads up are Jon Ashworth and Keir Starmer. Even those two, hamstrung as they were by the rules of collective responsibility, have singularly failed to score a telling blow on the Conservatives.

Dr. Elizabeth Jane Bridger

Doctor Elizabeth Jane Bridger – May 5, 1957 – Mar 31, 2001

Love is the most written about topic in the human sphere, and it’s something I studiously avoid in my writing. Far better writers than I have plundered this trove, so I’m loathe to add my plodding prose. Instead, I’ll just say: the greats have mostly got it right. Love isn’t one thing, it’s a broad experience channelling through that narrow gate of human emotion, the metaphorical heart. Most of all, it is about remembering shared experiences, especially when the object of your love has moved on to whatever plane of existence may or may not be our next port of call.