Welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman.

On this week's bumper episode, we'll be discussing the cult of Corbyn, Sharia courts, gossip columns and orchid hunting.

First, in this week's magazine, Rod Little examines the phenomenon that is Jeremy Corbyn,

and describes how the young people of the nation have been gripped by a collective delusion.

To discuss this subject, I'm joined by Hugo Rifkind, who was at Glastonbury last weekend, and Ellie Mayo Hagen, a Corbyn supporting journalist.

So, Hugo, you seem to suggest in your piece that Corbinism is a sort of cultural fad, a bit like

dressing up and that they might fade away quite quickly. Yes, sort of. I mean, I think it's more

about identity than policy, or at least the aspect of it I saw last week was more about

identity than about policy. I think what Corbyn is doing very well is raising the issues that growing demographic cares about.

It sounds a bit odd to say the young and the formerly young because everybody's formerly young.

But I think we concentrate an awful lot on the under 25s.

And actually I think the real Corbin demographic is the kind of under 40s who are worried about primarily things like housing.

Ed West writes about this very well on coffee house this week,

but also about just the general sort of quality of life not being what they've been led to

expect it ought to be.

And I think Corbyn talks to that demographic very well,

although whether he has solutions for them is sort of another question.

And so you were at Glastonbury last week and you saw Corbyn in action.

How did he compare to the bands that you saw?

Well, I mean, I didn't literally see him in action because I couldn't get close because so many people

wanted to see him.

I mean, he had a bigger crowd than radio had a bigger crowd than Ed Shearron.

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