Are there no limits to Just Stop Oil’s capacity for self-satire? In my Spectator column last week I described eco-protestors as being like pro-Communist demonstrators in Soviet Russia – no amount of obeisance to their dogma is ever enough. But even I didn’t expect them to stage one of their sophomoric protests at Glyndebourne, a monument to liberal, bien pensant groupthink. Here is the Telegraph, scratching its head over why the pink-haired militants targeted the upper-middle class opera festival:
It is unclear why the protesters chose Glyndebourne, which prides itself on its environmental credentials. The opera house has committed to halve direct carbon emissions by 2030 and reach Net Zero by 2050.
In 2012, to the dismay of some locals who argued that it was spoiling an area of outstanding natural beauty, Glyndebourne installed a 67-metre wind turbine that was officially unveiled by Sir David Attenborough.
Glyndebourne said at the time that the turbine “provides a visual reminder to us all to do all we can to tackle climate change”.
It makes you wonder who’s next in Just Stop Oil’s sites? The headquarters of Greenpeace? Greta Thunberg’s house in Sweden? The set of St David Attenborough’s next eco-propaganda series?
Worth puzzling over in full.
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The world record for the most people on one moving motorcycle is 56 and was achieved by the Indian Army Corps of Signals.
I thought it was 60, by the London Met police to escape from Palistinian protesters!
That has to win a prize for the most useless fact anyone knows.
Who on earth down ticked that comment, are they saying you’re wrong?
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Well if Frank Haviland had any say in the matter we might be able to pull this country round.
Great article (‘Chief wet-wipe Sir Mark Rowley’) Very much in the style of Rod Liddle.
Yes, that certainly brought a smile.
Thanks for the link. Entertaining read.
“American Bully dogs: some demanding they all be shot and others asking that the owners are not stigmatised.”
Perhaps that should be the other way round… he mused.
Open display of prejudice against people with ginger hair is actually quite common. That said, I’m much in favour of increasing the number of police officers on a motorbike to at least four, preferably six. That ought to keep them busy with themselves instead of pointlessly messing with other people’s affairs and as they don’t care for most everyday crimes, anyway, this can only be a good thing. The sight would also be much more entertaining than two of them in a car.
None, ‘cos we’re not allowed to call them “policemen” any more?! Or am I listening to other sources of information too much? I think the latest linguistic scam is to use terms like “police”, or maybe “policepersons” or whatever!
My favourite Parliamentary petition was, and remains, “Reclassify Cheese as a vegetable.”