UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
It was recently revealed that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said that Zionists “don’t understand English irony”, which is kind of ironic.
What are the English most proud of? Not their history, their culture or their global achievements. In these days of postcolonial reappraisal, all that is tarnished, compromised or, at the very least, not something to boast about. No, the one national characteristic that is guaranteed to swell English hearts is that of irony.
The English like to think of themselves as masters of the slippery form. Yes, the Germans may make reliable cars, the Italians stylish clothes and the French fine wine, but they don’t have our ironic way of seeing the world.
Yet even seasoned connoisseurs of the outlook are beginning to struggle under the weight of ironies piling up, like some huge motorway accident, on the British political scene.
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