I was thinking that! I was a huge fan of the Dark is Rising books as a kid, but Greenwitch isn't where I'd start...

This looks great - fantastic list of contributors! Pre-ordering now.

I saw One Battle After Another this week and enjoyed it quite a bit, but the first third was… not good? The mother character was a Manic Pixie Dream Freedom Fighter and her story made no sense.

I’m standing in the conference pass pickup queue. You made the right call.

Also, I was amazed when I was in India in August at how normal and well-used their digital ID system is. In a country of 1.4bn people, everyone has their own physical and digital ID card.

As a non-UK-national living here, having an ID card would be brilliant. I had to apply for a provisional driving license (in itself a massive faff) mostly because I didn't want to carry my passport everywhere and lots of places didn't recognise my Irish passport card as valid ID.

This has blown my mind. It all makes sense now.

Sorry to see this - you were the potential candidate I was most excited about! But as you say, you've already got a big role as chair of Women and Equalities, which is more important than ever right now.

You're absolutely right, apologies! Clearly too much reshuffle excitement...

Hate to be the rulebook person, but iirc the deputy leader has to be an elected member of the Commons. So rules out anyone in the upper house, and also the metro mayors, a couple of whom might command a bit of support!

I hope so! I think she's a fantastic asset for Labour - part of the reason why she's been so consistently targeted by right-wing news outlets.

So I took a different route home, going out of my way and changing my plans, to make sure I was safe. I am so unbelievably fed up of this being the daily reality for women and girls. It’s not ok.

Either stopped to intervene or asked me if I was ok. Not one person of the twenty or so people who could clearly see what was happening at a busy crossroads.

I keep my head down, and say “sorry, no” a few times, and don’t react to the abuse until he lets me walk away. And I think what annoys me most is not his utter conviction that he has a right to my time (or whatever it was he wanted), it was that nobody, on a busy street in the evening…

If a man wants a woman’s attention, he must receive it. So he starts shouting. And moving back and forth in front of me to block my path. I’d like to shout at him, to tell him to get out of my way, that he has no right to demand anything from me, a stranger. But I don’t.