Jeremy Corbyn is to irony what Donald Trump is to feminism | Matthew d’Ancona

When politics most needs an antidote to absolute certainty, the Labour leader’s remarks about Zionists are the ultimate irony

As so often, the late Christopher Hitchens put it well: “The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.” Unlike rigid ideology and fundamentalism, irony – saying one thing while meaning another – helps us to recognise complexity, paradox, nuance and absurdity.

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