 Do you want to introduce yourself and also tell me about the wards you've just been elected to represent? So my name is Malakar Haby. I am currently the councillor of Brumhill and Sharrow Vale alongside Brian and Angela. It's been a crazy few months campaigning. We've been contested. It was very close last year so this year we knew we had to fight. By the end of the day I think the public realised that the best way for a democracy to go isn't just a two-party vote and that Greens are a choice and Greens are strong. We have a great team. Brian, Angela, the whole team. Peter, Liam, canvassing, leafletting. It wasn't easy. There's a lot of soul feet, a lot of soul hips, a lot of breast-needed. But yeah, it's been amazing. How many leaflets have you delivered to your Econoga last month? Thousands. All recycled. I need that little snippet. I'll send you the whole face, mum. Thousands. All recycled. Phase of a moment, enjoying a campaign. What have you enjoyed the most? Media trade. I've never been media trade. The young children that can't vote yet, that said they're going to vote for me, it shows that they actually see politics and I think that's what it's all about. It's all about proportional representation. They ask me about politics and canvas, their parents are involved. Yeah, really. I think it's just all the young people that are. That came out, honestly, whether I'd have had one or not. The amount of people in my area, in my community, in the ward. Young people that came out to support me. When did you last have a day off? Half of Eid. When did you last have a full day off? I can't answer that question. I think, I don't know. What are you going to do tomorrow? Sleep. Stretch. Sleep stretch. Thank people. Apply to people. Send my love to every single person. And then plan a walk around the ward to thank just a little couple of people. That's my plan. Brilliant. Congratulations, Malachi. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the council. You too, definitely. Thank you. I said you too. It's like on a week to say thank you. I mean, for me it was a lovely moment. I met you at the beginning of the camp. Yeah, it was. I'm sorry, I like this one as well. Me versus Terry. Yeah. You and I. I like Terry. Yeah. There is a national region. They don't get away from that. And they're also a mission program to deal with. What we are seeing across the region, across the country, is that trend. And an improving trend. On a slightly different point. It's so interesting. I just like that. Contrast. Yeah. This is the leader of the council and this is a new counsellor. One of the youngest counsellors. So interesting. That's what I was trying to do is show. Yeah. Because obviously they're filming those separately. And then we're showing them separately. But I wanted to get both in. There is a national region, isn't there? It's something you've said a lot as we've watched so. You've sort of said I like Terry, you know, I like Alice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think anybody on an individual basis is bad. But I think when you subscribe to certain political parties, you're susceptible to groupthink, you know. You could be amazing people individually. And I don't think anyone is inherently good or bad. I think people do good and bad. And I think everybody has their own individual merits, you know. But, you know, you take them and put them into a political party and turn the wheel. Then they just churn out things that are not that great. I think doing this research, one of the things that maybe has changed in me is I've become less party political and more concerned about the individuals. So I think across parties there are brilliant people in all different parties. And to be honest, in some parties, in every party, you'll find some arseholes as well. So, yeah, I just support the brilliant people and not the arseholes. My mum always said to me that, you know, only boring people get bored. So I genuinely don't get bored. I've got a really high tolerance level for boredom and I think that's a useful thing for an anthropologist because we spend a lot of time just sitting around waiting for things to happen. I would say about 98% of the time you're waiting. And I'm really, really good at waiting. I like waiting. I like going to airports early. I like going to train stations. I like sitting around in houses, you know, at weddings that go on for days in India. And just seeing, just looking around me and seeing what's happened and finding interest in those sort of really mundane, boring moments. And I just, therefore, you know, it's just really difficult to get bored. And, you know, when I'm bored, I'm really good at sleeping so I can sleep anywhere, so I just go to sleep. How do you describe being a man, a lord man? How is it different from being a counselor? Oh, it's much more fun. Because you get to set your own agenda. And I'm also a year out of direct politics in terms of, I don't go to any of the committee meetings. I'm not there making decisions. I'm seen for this year as being neutral and I chair the full council meeting as a neutral. So the rest of the time is my own and I get to choose what I do. Reading is a big passion of mine and it's what I'm promoting this year. Last week there was a day when I had two classes of children in in the morning followed by a tenants association coming in to talk about what was happening on their estate. I then went to a meeting about governance because I had my mayoral hat on and we were talking about how the system of governance within the council works. Then I had members from a book group come in to talk to me and then in the evening I had a group of scouts and cubs come in because they had to do their public service badge and so they came in to talk about what I do and what local government does so that they could tick the badge that they knew more about local government and politics. So that was just one day. And getting out and meeting people is the bit that I love because you can talk to people and quite often people talk to you about issues that they have with the council but not in an angry way. If you're a councillor when people have fed up they come and have a real go at you. If you're the Lord Mayor there's some sort of aura whereby they talk to you but in a more civil way and that's fine. If somebody comes with an issue I can take that up or pass it to the relevant place but mostly I'm just out representing the city. And we have everything. We have the Cutler's Company in Sheffield of all the metal manufacturers in Sheffield and they have a Cutler's Feast and when I go to those I'm a very serious person who's wearing a chain and has to respond to things seriously and that's part of Sheffield and then a week later I'll be going to something else where I might wear my jeans because I'm going to get down with some kids and get messy but I'll be wearing the chain. All the time. Yeah, except at home and I don't wear it to the supermarket but it's like going to an adventure playground with children and the first thing they do is dare you to go down the very steep slide and you have to but you're wearing all this at the same time and they like that because it shows that you're human but at the same time they recognise that you've done it especially for them. It's fine. Yeah, I have a really good time. You've talked about your favourite part of the job. What's your least favourite part of the role of Lord Mayor? It's a big show that I'm orchestrating except it's not a show, it's real and you don't know how people are going to behave and you're managing behaviours and trying to help everybody to be part of it and encourage people but also you have to set boundaries and say you can't do that. Please be understanding for the right worshipful Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Councillor Charlotte Richards. It's lovely to break February Day to another exciting meeting with Sheffield City Council. Full council meetings are in the council chamber which is the debating chamber of the city. There is a public gallery where members of the public can come and watch the meeting. They can ask questions. They can bring petitions. So the idea is that it's the meeting where people can see the council in action and have some participation. We don't allow questioning of officers at meetings. The questioning is of the councillors and what you don't want is somebody standing up and saying and Council Officer X has done, actually no, hang on, they'll have done that because they'll have been instructed to. So it's us who takes the flag, not that person. How much preparation goes into each meeting in terms of, you know, sort of in advance in terms of script, in terms of... Huge amounts of preparation. We try to plan it as much as we can and we plan such that if vote A goes that way, this follows. And if vote A goes that way, this follows so that we're trying to anticipate as much as possible. I can just say, well, tear up the script. I wouldn't, but if a debate is moving and there are people who do need to speak because it's a very important debate, then I will allow more people and I will allow extra time. But if I do that, that does mean that there is less time for other things and I have to catch it up somewhere else. So I have Paul sitting next to me telling me I am mortal and I can turn to him and I can say, what do you think just happened in that vote because I think X? Also in front of me, I have the head of legal, I have the chief executive who I can ask for advice and it is a political debating chamber. It isn't sort of school politeness, if you like. Each meeting, I'm awake at four in the morning starting to worry about how it's going to go truthfully. When you come out of a meeting and it's run well or it's run not too badly, it's probably better. You do think, okay, I did that and that was okay and I feel quite pleased. Yeah, brilliant. I think that's really covered everything that we wanted to talk about.