The Green Party’s candidate in next month’s European election in Northern Ireland has withdrawn after a sporting injury last weekend, and seems likely to be replaced by their co-leader Lindsay Whitcroft. Lindsay and I were both on the Alliance Party ticket in North Belfast in 1996, and her husband Pete and I (and Kathy of Kate and Pansy) were on the same University Challenge team in 1994, so I wish her well. If I had a vote back home I would be backing John Gilliland with my first preference, but would certainly give Lindsay my second.