What emerges through the mists is a more-or-less standard left-wing politician, but with a sensitive nose for where the political wind will blow next.
The Labour leader’s rise has relegated the former star of the hard left to the sorry status of a fedora-clad sideshow.
Jeremy Corbyn has no comment when asked what he intends to do about accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
The foreign policy aspect of the choice has so far been a poor relation in the debate.
But he is actually a traditional Tory leader who wants to show he will not give in to foreigners, even if they are children.
Will Corbyn represent In? Could we have Ozza v Bozza? What happens to Farage?
Managing the controversial White Paper through into action is a formidable task for the woman who is mulling a future crack at the leadership.
The Labour leader spoke out against change, and made David Cameron sound like a management consultant.
Her role is not merely ceremonial: she helps make tyranny impossible.
I don’t care if the Culture Secretary wears a blue silk kimono while eating his toast, and I really don’t want to know whom he’s dating.
The regime he once praised so heartily has managed to plunge an oil-exporting nation into an energy crisis.
For a Labour leader whose whole pitch is based on his inflexibility, today’s speech involved quite a lot of uncomfortable bending.
Livingstone’s conduct is deeply offensive both to those of us who lost loved ones in the Holocaust, and to the vast majority of people in the United Kingdom.