I keep being asked why I don’t go into politics.
There are a few reasons:
1. I'd be rubbish at it.
2. I mean really rubbish.
3. I'd prefer to see women, people of colour and young people entering politics, rather than someone else with my profile.
But more importantly …

4. To create change, we need an ecosystem: people with a wide variety of skills, performing a wide variety of tasks.
We need researchers, journalists, campaigners, organisers, supporters, fundraisers, administrators etc, as well as politicians.

5. Some of these tasks are incompatible. For instance, if I went into politics, I wouldn’t be free to decide what I think, or to change my mind as soon as the evidence changes. I would have to bite my lip and follow a party line. In other words, I couldn’t do the things I do now.

6. And above all, I want to be part of a movement that builds a new politics, a politics which no longer relies only on a few people representing us, but allows us all a greater role in decision-making. Political rewilding, in other words. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/18/demagogues-power-rewilding-party-trust-power-government

7. Such shifts cannot come from the centre. The centre will not propose a surrender of its own powers.
Society is like an amoeba. It moves from the margins.