"An Honest Conversation"

"But if the left wants to salvage those policies for today's Labour party, it needs to be honest about what went wrong. Corbynism was undoubtedly severely damaged by internal sabotage; but the leadership operation itself was often profoundly dysfunctional and demoralised, something that wasn't rectified because of post-2017 hubris and Corbyn’s avoidance of conflict. A top team that was united descended into brutal acrimony long before the election was even called. Those who insisted the antisemitism crisis was a smear campaign and nothing else–that Labour's opponents would always seize on it did not mean it was not a very real problem–not only caused pain to Jewish people but also helped strip away Corbynism's idealistic sheen."

Owen Jones at The Guardian gives an obituary the Corbyn-era Labour Party.