Two strange things about this headline from an American perspective. First, I don't recall seeing "leftwing" before as a single, non-hyphenated word. Second, le

Two strange things about this headline from an American perspective. First, I don't recall seeing "leftwing" before as a single, non-hyphenated word. Second, left wing publications in the USA almost never describe something on the left as actually being left wing -- it's as though they want to maintain the illusion that there's right wing nutjobs and then there's the rest of us.