20-05-2025
Baroness Jones: You're never too old to be arrested as a Green
Criminality in the upper house tends to involve pound signs, but Baroness Jones (Jenny as was) takes pride in her more on-brand naughtiness. She tells Lord McFall on the Lord Speaker's podcast: 'The thing about the Green Party is, if you get arrested because you're at a demonstration [a 2014 one organised by Occupy], it's almost a gold star.' When she got back to the Lords and told colleagues what had happened, one of them asked: 'Aren't you a bit old to get arrested?' It must be the only thing in the Lords for which one can be too old.
The art of diplomatic umpiring has been recalled by veteran Australian actor Vincent Ball, who once played in a celebrity cricket match with Charles III,
