So that's it after 20 years? So long, good luck?

We have to refuse this moral blackmail. Labour, in its current form, is part of what gave rise to the far right. Fighting one thing means fighting the other

Crimbo listening

Good bit from a spoof manifesto I found in the archive of Peter Sedgwick, the Marxist, translator and author of 'Psycho Politics':

Friends, I want to see your end of year lists! Here are the best things I read, listened to, watched this year:

Sassetta, 'The Blessed Raineiri Frees the Poor from a Florence Prison'

Just signed up to that list that labels poshos' tweets lollll

Oi

Absolutely loving this unassuming but really charming and original record, should have got round to it sooner

My cat must become a dog!