
A small station of the UK left shut up shop last week, as New Left Project announced that, after five years, nearly 1500 articles and over a million visitors, it was to cease publication.
It might well be tempting for centrists to claim NLP's closure as a sign of the death of the radical Left ("Lo, victory! Take that you head-in-the-cloud Corbymania! Jowell shall be mayor!"). But it probably says a lot more about the health of political media in the UK than that of the left.