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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud with me, Lyndon Kenkaren. Each week we choose our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask our writers to read them aloud.

Coming up on the podcast this week. Katie Balls on the new divisions within the Labour Party and what Jeremy Corbyn might run for next.

Peter Hitchens describes the joys of cycling and his dislike of e-bikes and e-scooters.

And Anthony Horowitz joins us from Crete, where he ponders the end of the world, becoming a

grandfather and the travel limitations after Brexit.

First up, it's Katie Balls.

Earlier this summer, a hundred of so Londoners gathered around a solar-powered stage truck at Highbury Fields to celebrate 40 years of Jeremy Corbyn in Parliament.

There was music, magic, tricks and merriment.

Attendees were encouraged to party like it was 2017.

The opening act sang,

Jezer and me, we agree, were all for peace and justice and anti-austerity. We're voting

Jeremy Corbin, J.C. for MP, for me. For loads in the Labour Party watching from afar,

this wasn't just a celebration. It was a soft launch of Corbyn's campaign

to be the independent MP for Islington North. Just how many constituents will vote for him,

as an independent remains to be seen, but he can still inspire partygoers. The villain of the day

wasn't Rishi Sunak, but Sir Kirs Stama.

When Stammer was mentioned by his speaker, who described him as lying, self-interested and opportunistic, the audience booed and jeered.

This dynamic represents a risk to labour beyond the specific political ecosystem of North London.

Left-wing voters, tired of Stalmers

move to the right, might as then the next election vote green, independent, or not vote at all.

Corbin, 74, has made little secret of the fact he wants to stay in politics. At an Edinburgh

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