The Newsnight film on Labour's divisions under Starmer was pretty accurate... but 1/ Look how easily it has provoked more divisions. Len McCluskey's "counting gold" comment about Mandelson was a disgrace and so was Unite's initial defence of it... he is right to apologise...
2/ The allegation of Starmer being "untrustworthy" from Diane Abbot sounded to me like a left that has no intention of fighting for influence in a battle of ideas... I hope the #GrassrootsVoice NEC slate stays well away from this...
3/ There's a growing logic: the disaffiliation of a big union, a provoked confrontation over the EHRC report, a Unite-led "faction" so that tankies can live in a well-funded echo chamber while abdicating the struggle for a Labour government...
4/ It's been a week since the Socialist Campaign Group led the revolt of the Spycops bill. I applauded that: but where's the vision, project, strategy? It's coming from the newest left MPs who are engaged with the front bench and its project...
5/ Every passing day EP Thompson's words about the "two Marxisms" is proved right. There's a human-centric left prepared to engage with radical social democracy; and there's a Comintern re-enactment group which has got stuck in the Third Period.
6/ And the wider labour membership, which is not parading its anti-Starmer memes or threatening to flounce out of the party to do "more important work" is not sounding very impressed with the Orthodox Left this morning.
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