Spent all afternoon reading that leaked report and just overwhelmed with squishy thoughts that will please no-one. The main things I’m thinking about right now:

1. Unbelievable that the deniers are out in force claiming this is some vindication. It should now be very clear that dealing effectively with the scale of antisemitism was intensely challenging.

2. That this has been leaked unredacted is awful and my sympathy and solidarity to people whose information is out there without their consent

3. This is clearly a partial account and it has to be read and understood in that context, understanding that conflicting accounts will emerge that challenge some assertions

4. None of the above excuses any of the incontrovertible evidence of appalling behaviour. The behaviour towards Diane Abbott was particularly sociopathic. I just cannot put myself in a headspace where I’d behave that way toward my worst enemy.

5. Overall so much of this is just appalling and pathetic. People really need to stop LARPing the 80s - it should be treated like a mental illness and people sent home on full sick pay. Didn’t need the NUS flashbacks today and had naively assumed adults might behave better.

6. It’s a particularly striking example of the tendency for in-groups in lots of flavours of left politics to behave utterly poisonously and excuse it on the basis of everyone but them being immoral or enabling something immoral.

7. The hiring practices detailed (getting people with the right politics not the right skills) is endemic to all intensely factionalised approaches to politics not just the labour right. It creates crappy outcomes for lots of different reasons and slowly poisons everything.

8. That the labour leader will be held accountable for the party’s operations is very apparent - future leaders should have much more freedom of action over staffing, with caveats and controls.

9. Some of the emails from the leaders office read like they’ve been written to be leaked/ass cover tbh, and make sure that certain details are on the record

10. This leak is going to pour petrol on a factional firefight. KS is probably going to want to move past it. I don’t think that’s now possible. A full independent assessment is now a necessity, even if it costs money, if Keir is serious about unifying the party.

11. It (should) go without saying that whoever leaked this report should face legal action.