Why didn’t Labour have a leadership contest when it mattered?

Did you know that David Miliband’s favourite snack is a Twirl? I learned this yesterday while trawling the various Labour leadership websites, desperate to find some reason — any reason — to care about any of it. In his photograph at the top, David’s odd grey patch of hair seems curiously prominent, in a manner that suggests there might be a seagull circling somewhere overhead. I stared at that for a while. The Twirl thing was number 10 on ‘10 Things You May Not Know About David’. I already knew the other nine. It’s quite sparse, David Miliband’s website. Not like Diane Abbott’s website. Hers is great.

It suffers, sure, from having Diane Abbott all over it, talking in that very special way of hers, like a petulant nine-year-old who has had a stroke, patiently explaining why she deserves another cupcake. The basic design of the thing, though, the way her big, almost spherical face dominates the screen, all looks pretty good.