[Saturday 18 August 2018 The Guardian Opinion, Give Us the Full Jack Nicholson, Jeremy. We can handle it.Marina Hyde].

“Corbyn’s sheer volume of fringe activity … So many wreaths, you know …”

We do know!

So many massacres, so many assassinations, so many bodies buried under the rubble, so many bulldozed, so many incinerated, so many blown apart, so many melted, so many burned, so many dead from want of medical treatment, dead at the checkpoint and dead in the car, dead at school, dead in the market, dead on the beach, dead in the library, dead in the fields and dead in the fishing boats …

Yet the “sheer volume” of Jeremy Corbyn’s “fringe” activity in protesting at the sheer volume of killing and sheer volume of wreaths, you call “a perverse morality.”

How come human solidarity is deemed a “fringe activity?”  How come human solidarity is “questionable” and if you’ve done it for a long time, becomes “decades of adventures in freelance peace-making?” How come, Marina? If this were a film, you would be finally moved to declaim your personal preference for military occupation, dum-dum bullets, white phosphorus, mass incarceration and cultural appropriation.  Mmmm. I’m kidding of course. But that’s the way your jokey style comes over when compared to the writings of other past and present Guardian contributors: Suzanne Goldenberg, Naomi Klein, Ahdaf Soueif, Ghada Karmi or Karma Nabulsi. Why not ask Suzanne Goldenberg why the “sheer volume” of abuse she received for fair reporting on Palestine resulted in her having to relocate? It dawns on me I’ve actually read your rubbish before, Marina, but forgot about it. If I am giving the impression of struggling to place all of your rubbish, you’ve got to admit to the sheer volume of rubbish you’ve generated. Not everything you write is rubbish – not even remotely. But nowadays much of it is. For a chance that we are not stuck forever with this post-Miliband, post Hilary, dour and humourless Marina, may I recommend a marvellous book by your charismatic former colleague, Daphna Baram:Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel. Just kidding. Of course it’s time Corbybn faced the truth according to Marina: all Palestinians are terrorists, even newborns. Mmmm.  And so it goes in the perverse world of Marina’s what’s-your-favourite-movie morality.