MILLFIELDS are another of Gnome's oldest fixtures, dating back to the 1970s, and arising from Gnome's origins among the staff and contributors of Private Eye magazine. When Millfields was founded its members included a number of political radicals and journalists from north London who had connections with Private Eye. They called themselves Millfields (rather than, say the Walthamstow Trots) as an act of irony, as they believed that Millfields was the name of England's most expensive public school. (This is a further irony, as there is a very posh school by the name of Millfield in Somerset; Millfields, however, is a local authority school in Hackney.) Among the Millfields members with ties to Private Eye was Roger Protz, an International Socialist like the Eye journalist Paul Foot. Ironically (yes, this story is dripping with irony) Protz was ousted from the Millfields team in a very Trotskyist internal coup. It is not known how many political radicals still play for Millfields, although it should be noted that the member we all believed to be a tax inspector is in fact an environmentalist. Protz, even more ironically, is now best-known as the real ale writer and enthusiast. Whether he still plays cricket is not known.