Jeremy Corbyn is not the Messiah | Letters

Readers engage with Owen Jones’s enthusiasm for the Labour leaderOwen Jones suggests that “to understand the future, we must reconsider the past” (Blair should accept his era is over, 20 July), adding that the lesson of the past is that “Labour’s role is to tear down a bankrupt social order, not defend it”. Noble sentiments – but surely not an accurate historical assessment? The early Labour party of a century ago was a reformist, social-democratic movem