Labour's Peterborough win was a massive defeat!

I woke up this morning and felt the agony - the agony that is of all those media pundits who were slavering for a Corbyn trouncing in yesterday's by-election. How would they spin this result? An air of hurt disappointment permeated the Today programme's studio. The script was in the bin. So forgetting that this seat historically is a knife edge marginal, all that could be said was that the win wasn't big enough. No doubt the Blairites will be plunging into this narrative too, forgetting perhaps that Labour lost the seat in 2005 whilst Blair was still Labour Party leader, and only won it back under Corbyn in 2017. Like the Lord's Prayer (another news item today) it seems history can be rewritten willy nilly.