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The Forde report: what has changed?
Keir Starmer has claimed that the debilitating factionalism revealed in the 138-page inquiry is over — if so, that is only because the worst offenders are now in full control of Labour. We must break the cycle, writes ANDREW MURRAY
DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL: Martin Forde QC (inset)
[Forde photo UCL Laws/flickr/CC] 
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
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Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
ONE cannot read the Forde Report into the internal life of the Labour Party during the Jeremy Corbyn years without a deepening sense of rage.
That is not because Martin Forde QC has done a bad job — far from it. His report is judicious, largely fair, and in many respects, deeply insightful.
He and his team were charged with reviewing the contents of the “leaked report” — an internal Labour document prepared under then general secretary Jennie Formby and originally intended as part of the party’s submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation into Labour’s handling of complaints of anti-semitism.
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