One of my least favourite activities is walking a former habitat of a locally extinct species. On a larger scale, I'll be leaving my childhood bird guides on the shelf for a while, now that the Slender-billed Curlew has no habitat anywhere. Desperately sad.

I was just about to jump up and down and celebrate breaking through the 90k barrier, but "Green turning Reform locally" is even better news - except for Nigel!

Having never voted Tory, I can at least imagine that this party once occupied - with occasional style - a fair-sized hill in the British political landscape. Is this how it ends? Tories - grubby entryists in Reform UK? Burning the planet to justify their continued sorry existence.

Zack's podcast is an energetic success. My only hrumph? It's taking up writing time! Hopefully not, the only conversation with Grace Blakeley's feisty Marxist economics. Under an umbrella of 'bold politics', it's intriguing that Blakeley is shifting from adversarial confrontation. Food for thought.

Party politics is where we are, but it isn't inappropriate to pause for thought from time to time when a political relationship becomes hurtfully adversarial. Your attitude to Sadiq Khan is appreciated - even on occasion by the man himself.

Just heard the news with my muesli, Thelma. I'm delighted! A warm welcome to the Green Party, @thelma-2.bsky.social.

So positive on the membership, Zack. A sense of movement and growth around the country, too. I greatly enjoyed the community meal last Sunday in Barking. New members and councillors is good news.

Thanks for sharing. A big wave to fellow Greens across the pond and success in common struggles.

A.D. Lindsay saw the origins of democracy in congregational decision-making. Whatever we think of his Christian socialism, he paints a picture of democracy as an embodied process. I appreciate the slog of all that trudging, but I fear there's something to be lost in a disembodied process.