If only it were so easy to forgive Jared O’Mara’s sins | Catherine Bennett

Labour expects his Sheffield constituents to forget his sexist and homophobic past. Why should they?‘By the age of 30,” wrote the psychologist William James, “the character has set like plaster and will never soften again.” If it has yet to be proved, James’s point is something the voters of Sheffield Hallam might want to bear in mind when they come to pick their next MP. For now, unless he resigns, their hopes of effective representation appear to rest with the rec