Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have been attacking the media for devoting insufficient coverage to a major political story: the Labour leader travelling to Switzerland to collect an award for promoting world peace. “It’s clear there was a media blackout,” fumed Labour MP Chris Williamson.

Admittedly the award in question is so obscure that a) the media have never given coverage to any of its previous winners either, b) the Labour Party didn’t announce that its own leader had won, and c) when Mr Corbyn was actually named as the winner, three whole months ago, even Mr Williamson didn’t mention it. But Mr Corbyn’s supporters are standing their ground.

To redress the balance, this column asked Mr Williamson to write about other occasions when Mr Corbyn’s achievements have been suppressed.

Cover-up

In 1965, our supposedly balanced press managed to find space to cover all manner of frivolous “stories”. The Beatles promoting their latest film. Liverpool winning their first FA Cup. The death of Winston Churchill.

Yet not one newspaper reported Jeremy Corbyn’s O-level results.

Interesting, isn’t it? You might have assumed an achievement on this scale by a future Labour leader would merit media attention.

But apparently not.

The story was similarly overlooked on television. When I contacted Sky News to ask why they’d neglected to report on Jeremy’s O-levels, a spokesman offered some mealy-mouthed excuse about their channel not existing at the time.