A record number of delegates are on the south coast to cheer Jeremy Corbyn but party unity remains brittleNothing can seem so long ago as the very recent past. It is just two years since Jeremy Corbyn made his debut appearance as leader at his party’s conference. After a career spent on the margins, he was thrust centre stage. Where once his personal conference highlight would be addressing a fringe meeting of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, he was enthroned in the leader’s seat and still looking a bit bewildered to find himself there. When his friend John McDonnell made his first conference speech as shadow chancellor, also his first as a platform speaker, Mr Corbyn did something I found rather endearing. He took out his phone and started taking photos, as if he would later need evidence that the pair of them hadn’t been dreaming. Many were the predictions then that it couldn’t possibly last, some of those forecasts coming from people who called themselves Mr Corbyn’s friends. Either Labour MPs would get rid of him or he would come to his own conclusion that he wasn’t up to the job. A few of us thought the latter unlikely, but that feeling of contingency persisted.

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Why is the city dithering over a suitable memorial to the events that brought in the first Irish immigrants? More than 150 years after starving Irish people first sought sanctuary in Glasgow, it seems the city’s acceptance of them remains a qualified one. The bulk of those who settled here had fled the horrors of the Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. During this period, a million of Ireland’s poorest people starved to death and a million more were forced to flee to other countries to ensure that their families survived. The potato blight at its heart had also occurred throughout north-west Europe but no other people suffered anywhere near as much as the Irish. In 19th-century Ireland, repression of the indigenous Catholic population and the cruelty of English absentee landlords exacerbated the effects of the famine.

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The Government need to start taking the economic risk to the UK seriously and planning accordingly for it, as they have been warned to