The appointment of @AnnelieseDodds as Shadow Chancellor is critical: it suggests Keir Starmer's policy promises in the leadership election will be upheld.

@NickTorfaen - a biographer of Attlee and Bevan - also comes from the genuine not-just-throwing-the-term-about "soft left".

Reassuring, too, that @JonAshworth stays as Shadow Health Secretary - everyone agrees he's done a cracking job there - and @lisanandy, the Chair of Labour Friends Of Palestine and The Middle East becomes Shadow Foreign Secretary.

I personally don't know much about Lisa Nandy's foreign policy positions - but her priorities must include standing up to Donald Trump and challenging human rights abuses by key British allies, not least Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel.

The key thing is that @RLong_Bailey gets a big job - and @labourlewis surely deserves a promotion. The Labour left should fight to defend its policy red lines and debate ideas and policies for what British society looks like after the pandemic.

There's going to be things this Shadow Cabinet do I disagree with, and I'll say so, and you should too. After the pandemic, the left should put far more effort into extra-parliamentary to build pressure from the climate emergency to workers' rights for radical ideas and policies.

And while they are going to do things that should be criticised, instead of the despondency of some, the left should take stock - this Shadow Cabinet is not only way to the left of New Labour. Ed Miliband was the most left-wing member of his Shadow Cabinet (with on exception).

Some of those who voted for Corbyn twice voted for Long-Bailey, some voted for Starmer. All of them wanted a Labour party offering radical politics. The left's ideas were once the fringes: they're now the party's mainstream, even if they need to be defended.

Basically: accept our defeats, but don't wallow in them. Acknowledge our victories, but don't be complacent about them. That is surely the healthy approach for the left right now.

So far, though, while there's good gender balance, Lisa Nandy is the only leading figure who isn't white. Given Labour receives the support of a huge majority of people of colour in this country, the party needs to do a lot better when it comes to representation.