His comments were echoed by pensioner Nina Lopez, 64, who said she was more offended by the New Statesman's anti-Corbyn coverage than by other outlets.



"We are very shocked that the Labour media is doing this," she insisted. "They should be attacking the Tories. Every time there's elections coming up they attack Corbyn. They're treating him like he's completely useless."



Lopez said there was almost no media outlet she could trust to give a fair hearing to the Labour leader.

"There is nobody who is unbiased in relation to Corbyn – Paul Mason has been good. The Guardian has been terrible. The Independent at times has been a bit better. Every interview you watch is absolutely biased. Who needs Murdoch if the New Statesman is going to behave like this? You would expect the Labour media would not trash the elected Labour leader."



Around 20 protestors attended the event, which lasted an hour. It was promoted by local members of the pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum but was not officially organised by the national group.

At one point a small group of New Statesman staff ventured outside to watch the protest, including political editor George Eaton who was chased around by a man with a placard saying "Rent-A-Hack: Apply New Statesman". He declined to give protestors the 30 pages of the magazine they desired or take the microphone and instead stared intently at Twitter on his phone amid a barrage of shouting.

"He's probably trying to do a Donald Trump on us!" shouted one protestor at Eaton.

"That's his inspiration!" shouted another.

"At least Donald Trump was successful!"

"They said he smelled like a dead rat!" shouted another in reference to an article about Jeremy Corbyn.



"People say he can't get elected – he got elected twice and mobilised people."