JAN MOIR: My Christmas was all the more cheery because the Just Stop Oil protesters are still behind bars. Let's hope the courts keep it that way
Daily MailDon't know about you, but my Christmas was improved immensely by the cheering thought that the Just Stop Oil protesters who blocked the M25 in 2022 are still behind bars. You'd think they'd be glad of the undeniable climate crisis benefits of incarceration – living communally, consuming fewer megawatts, burning fewer fossil fuels, not driving cars and being exempt from boarding gas-guzzling public transport. A Just Stop Oil demonstration on an M25 gantry in 2022 Friends of the Earth said it would argue that the JSO sentences breach human rights legislation – but what about the human rights of the thousands of innocent citizens whose plans were wrecked and lives inconvenienced by the M25 protest? JSO are environmental extremists who claim that their campaign of direct action – throwing soup over paintings, trying and failing to spray orange paint on Taylor Swift's jet, obstructing public transport systems, using fire extinguishers filled with powder paint in an attempt to ruin the Duke of Westminster's wedding – has to be disruptive to draw attention to the urgency of the 'emergency'. Written by James Corden and Ruth Jones –who also star as Smithy and Nessa, left – this show has always been a cockle-warming celebration of family, friendship and love.
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