Shaw is a realist. He wants to do good, not just feel good. He knows that, if you want change, you have to persuade more people and that, with 8% of the vote in 2020, the Green Party doesn’t have a mandate for a green revolution. He is radical, not an extremist, in the sense that he wants the opposite of a conservative, the opposite of the status quo, while the extremes are distant from the median voter.

Josie's column is here.