Labour’s sister party in Egypt up until the day before yesterday was Hosni Mubarak’s NDP. The Socialist International grouping of left-wing parties only noticed on Monday that their sister party had run a brutal regime for thirty years which tortured opponents and used the secret police to suppress opposition. Fancy that…

Guido is grateful to friends for this copy of the letter expelling the NDP from the club. The man who got his party back, Neil Kinnock is the honorary President of Socialist International…