This afternoon Progressive International, a 2018 international left-wing startup, announced its new “cohort of Council members” featuring a wide range of loony left figures from across the globe. Best known to readers will no doubt be the UK’s own Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – the former of whom is listed as a new member. The board is drawn from 18 countries, though the most eye-catching member is undoubtedly the senator for the Socialist Party in the Dutch Parliament and Chair of the Group of the Unified European Left in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – Tiny Kox.

It is no surprise to Guido that left-wing progressives appreciate Tiny Kox…