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Welcome to the Times. To find out more, head to the Times.

To find out more, head to the Times Opinion Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and this week I'm

joined by three columnist Rachel Sylvester, Matthew Paris and Roger Boys. These are our topics

for this week.

Politicians ought to like the country they want to lead, but the Corbinistas seem to disapprove of modern Britain,

their roundheads in a cavalier age, collectivists in an era dominated by individualism.

There's a sense of moral superiority on the left that is as off-putting as the born-to-rule

attitude on the right.

Labour moderates must take back the moral high ground in their party.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to win. There was something infantile about the apparent switch of public or at least media opinion

after the publication of that photograph of a drowned Syrian toddler as if we didn't know already that children were

being drowned. My guess though is that public sympathy and generosity remains

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