Breaking News: Corbyn's biscuit preference finally revealed

I'm struggling to remember a time when the labour leadership contest wasn't ongoing, so long has it now been dragging on. This may also be because the PLP's reluctance to accept Corbyn as leader, has meant that there has been an apparent vacuum of power at the top of the party for the best part of the year.

Today, Corbyn elegantly demonstrated why he has tended to prefer engaging with actual people, rather than mainstream media - by engaging with some of the latter. On Radio 4's the Today programme, he was asked to explain why he didn't agree to interviews with the mainstream media (during a conversation which surely contradicted this point) and forced to endure Nick Robinson lazily regurgitating insults hurled at the labour leader by disgruntled establishment figures.

He was then whisked over to speak to that crucial and prestigious media outlet, Mumsnet. A website most famous for instigating penis beaker-gate, questions ranged from the deranged, to the bizarre, to the genuinely interesting. But even in this cathedral of tolerance and good humour, Corbyn was criticised for not typing quickly enough, and accused of hypocrisy for outlining his staunch anti-sugar stance, despite famously being an avid jam maker.

Possibly nothing exemplifies more powerfully the inherent issues in dealing with the "mainstream media" than the fact that the sum total of all of Corbyn's efforts today will be that the nation knows he'd plump for a shortbread if he was pushed.