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Zarah Sultana\u2019s rise to the top has been anything but smooth<\/p>\n
STEFAN ROUSSEAU\/PA<\/p>\n
Zarah Sultana was in Liverpool at the weekend for the Your Party conference, though she initially refused to enter the actual venue, criticising the \u201ctoxic culture\u201d (it\u2019s her party and she\u2019ll decry if she wants to). Meanwhile on Radio 4\u2019s Profile, Sultana\u2019s husband, Craig Lloyd, revealed that she is \u201cpretty much obsessed with\u201d the television programme Married at First Sight. We find this surprising. What can Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s co-founder possibly see in an enterprise where people hastily commit to a permanent relationship with someone who might be completely unsuitable for them, meaning that fundamental differences eventually force them apart?<\/p>\n
If Corbyn wished to relieve tensions<\/a> with a singalong, then John Lennon\u2019s Imagine might not have been the best choice. As a practising Muslim, imagining a world with \u201cno religion\u201d is not likely to be on Sultana\u2019s or her fellow independent MPs\u2019 wishlist. Roshan Salih, the editor of the British Muslim news site 5Pillars, was quick to condemn the \u201catheistic hymn\u201d, saying: \u201cIf you\u2019re a Muslim you shouldn\u2019t be joining this lot.\u201d Maybe if Lennon\u2019s Imagine had mentioned a world \u2018without a leader,\u2019 this would have been more appropriate.<\/p>\n \u2022 Chaos and splits as Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s party rejects him as leader<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Running out of steam<\/p>\n Potential bad news for Tricia Hillas, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, as it\u2019s rumoured that her diocese might be under threat from Church of England accountants. Only five years ago we reported that Covid-19 had left the diocese, which covers the Isle of Man and its adjacent islets, on the verge of financial ruin. Will Dame Sarah Mullally<\/a>, the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, be Hillas\u2019s saving grace? Regardless of the outcome, the influence of the diocese will live on with Thomas the Tank Engine. The line that Thomas chugs along is on the fictional island of Sodor, where things also have a tendency to go off the rails.<\/p>\n