I note without comment that there's a cross-link on the page to an Aug. 19 op-ed by Simon Jenkins titled  Corbyn could have been the nation’s saviour. But he’s just too tribal

[....] Corbyn will not lay aside partisan rhetoric and muster the parliamentary coalition that alone might bar no deal in the coming weeks, nor will he give way to other potential and less abrasive leaders of such a coalition. Every word Corbyn utters makes it ever more impossible for Liberal Democrats, nationalists or dissident Tories to lend him support, however temporary. Corbyn does not want to stop Brexit. He just wants a general election.

In today’s speech, the Labour leader should have presented himself as the voice of majoritarian sanity. He should have sought to muster the diverse tribes of political Britain to an emergency, to expose Johnson’s no-dealers as a masochistic minority. He should be reaching out to all Johnson’s opponents, talking, cajoling, compromising, fashioning the lowest common denominator of consensus. Corbyn should be the magnetic attractor of the “will of parliament”. As such, he would deserve the nation’s thanks for saving it from the disruption, hardship and expense of no deal – and for honouring the “frictionless border” that the Brexiters promised. Instead, he is simply aping Johnson. He is defaulting to the occupational disease of British politics – that it is about fighting elections, not governing countries [....]