Dara O'Reilly

We didn't start "we didn't start "we didn't start the fire.""

That was Steve, from BlueSky. Get him!

I saw Nostrils Of Colleagues opening for Camera Obscura in the Barrowlands etc etc etc

That there will be members you personally find uncongenial. It's simple mathematics, really.

The Green Party's membership has quadrupled in the last six months. The more members of an organisation there are, particularly if they pose a threat to your specific narrow interests (the continued existence of the Labour Party as a credible political movement,) the greater the likelihood

Again, there are only so many times a political party can tell its core electorate and its core activist base to fuck off before they will, in fact, fuck off.

Congenial home in the Green Party (including, as it happens, me.) I can almost guarantee that the Green Party will find it much much easier to canvass a number of constituencies Labour have hitherto taken for granted (Tottenham, say, or Keir Starmer's own in Camden) than Labour will.

And the phenomenon of activists being bussed in to target constituencies is hardly unique to the Green Party. The problem is that the Labour Party have alienated a lot of the people who used to do that for them in previous elections (including, as it happens, me) and that they've found a more

That's a very different argument from the suggestion that all their talent is at the national level (arguably disproven by a formerly unknown local activist trouncing a nationally-known figure and an established councillor) or that they'll struggle to attract credible candidates (ditto.)

I came within a WHISKER of doing the classic phone-rings-when-you're-ironing thing. Close enough to singe my facial hair.

Labour's strategy to win in 2024 amounted to "not being the increasingly unpopular and incompetent governing party."

The Green Party could try that, actually.

The Green Party have just produced one of the largest increases in vote share in by-election history with a candidate who was entirely unknown outside the local party two months ago. That would appear to be entirely contrary to your argument.

And the literary consensus that it's an allegory for humans' innate savagery rather than a critique of the English public school system is because every contemporary critic who reviewed it was also a product of the English public school system, so interpreted Golding's specific as a universal.

Appear before a panel of beloved experts (Sir David Attenborough, the ghost of his brother Lord Richard, Annie Lennox, Rizzle Kicks, Sir Tim Berners-Lee The Inventor Of The Internet, Floella Benjamin, Ruth Madoc and me.) We will then award their salary based on robust and exacting criteria.

Tell you what: I got spammed on LinkedIn, which I joined in a moment of weakness and have never really used, with a job opportunity utterly unsuitable to my skills and experience.

But it was advertised as "£Competitive," rather than a salary. So maybe, once MPs are elected, they should have to 2)

I think in theory parliamentarians should be paid a higher salary, because it attracts better candidates and reduces the risk of second-jobbing and grift.

Just not THIS shower of gobshites.

We only do self-catering/Eurocamp type family holidays for just this reason. Fucking LOVE going into a Carrefour or a REWE and getting hopelessly out of my depth.

Ooh! Ooh! I would quite like the Baston book, Simon, and in return I'll buy a stranger a copy of @jonnelledge.bsky.social 's A History Of The World In 47 Borders, which I already have!

The 2024 General Election was won by a party which secured 33.7% of the popular vote, delivering 411 seats and a 174-seat majority.

A boy in my year turned up on his first day at The College in 1987 wearing his rucksack with the straps on both shoulders, and has been called "Parachute" ever since.

I've just clicked on one of them, and it's by Alan Dershowitz! Good luck with that, champ.

A Google search for "the Ghislaine I Knew" reveals at least five articles by different journalists, whether Oxford contemporaries or social acquaintances, all of them aimed at laundering her reputation.

INDEPENDENT Playgrounds would become 'crack dens' if Greens were in power, policing minister says

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

I'm a sensible liberal voter - I'm as left as they come. That's why I'm telling Green to get out of the way and let Labour get on with their job of crushing minorities and funnelling money to corporations. Haven't you heard of Nigel Farage?

There's absolutely no question that Labour would prefer Reform won G&D than the Green Party. A defeat to Reform is inconvenient, but they can use it to galvanise their few remaining supporters. A defeat to the Greens is an existential threat.

To be honest, since we got the loft done, you need to think long and hard about whether something is worth going all the way downstairs to fetch.

Séamas' good and excellent book is coming out in May. I like it so much that, even though I got a free proof copy, I'm buying a SECOND copy, so I can also read it upstairs.

You should buy it. Actually, buy a couple of copies, as gifts for your footmen and maidservants.

While Guardian Opinion has historically solicited a heterodox range of views, from named contributors whose bona fides are explained, anonymous opinion pieces headed "The Guardian View On...." are the opinion of the newspaper itself on a particular issue.

As should really be immediately apparent.

"But, Doctor......I AM FemiSorry!"

I got arrested on my birthday once, too, so if my experience is anything to go by, the police will just let Andrew sleep it off, give him a couple of slices of toast and kick him out at about six in the morning.

Well, I suppose the good news is you don't have to move to Bedford?