Corbyn’s supporters love to present their hero as a decent, principled and compassionate man. But as the piles of sawdust on the streets of Paris show, we do not have the luxury of indulging such nonsense anymore. He is the man who addressed representatives of the terrorist organisation Hamas as “friends”. Who appointed as his shadow chancellor John McDonnell, the man who said “the peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA”. Who drew a direct comparison between the “tragedy” of 9/11 and the death of Osama Bin Laden. And who led - and continues to fundraise and cheerlead for - the Stop War Coalition, an organisation that put out a statement as the dead of Paris still lay in the streets claiming that “Paris reaps whirlwind of western support for extremist violence in Middle East”.