Corbyn’s university challenged

WATCHING University Challenge for Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox, Comrade Corbyn heard Jeremy Paxman ask: ‘Against which city state did Rome fight the three Punic Wars in the third and second centuries?’ Corbyn confidently answered: ‘Sparta.’ Jessica Hynes, star of BBC spoof W1A, sitting beside him on the sofa, convulsed in a fit of giggles. An embarrassed Corbyn then said: ‘Oh third century? I got the wrong century. Of course, Carthage, of course.’ The perils of live television.