Colin Sheridan: In an age of institutional distrust, legitimacy migrates to the personal

Polanski moment is as much about personality as it is politics

Green Party leader Zack Polanski. On paper, he isa bundle of contradictions that resolve into credibility. Picture: PA

There is a moment, early in the Green Party’s recent campaign video, where Zack Polanski is simply running. Not away from anything. Not towards a microphone. Just running — through a recognisable city, breathing audibly, speaking directly to camera. 

He talks not about “policy frameworks” but about life as it is lived now: Exhaustion, alienation, anger, hope.