A jury has cleared nine climate activists of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage to HSBC’s London headquarters after they argued they had a "lawful excuse" for the action.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Tommy Robinson's return to Twitter, the pro-Palestinian Armistice Day protests and Keir Starmer's missing poppy as he promotes Islamophobia Awareness Month.
The police, so quick to arrest gender critical feminists for saying hurty words on Twitter, have been reluctant to arrest anyone spewing antisemitic bile in the last 48 hours. Is that an acceptable form of 'hate speech'?
A study published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour has found that political mass gatherings in the US had no effect on the course of the pandemic. Which makes it even less likely that lockdowns did.
Activists are tagging Ulez cameras with posters put on poles to protest Sadiq Khan's expansion of the capital's ultra-low emission zone, pointing up at the technology and labelling them with the words 'spy camera'.
In the build-up to the expansion of Sadiq Khan's Ulez scheme, protesters have taken to the streets in South East London, blocking roads with tractors.
Hundreds of protestors gathered in Trafalgar Square this afternoon to demonstrate against Sadiq Khan's hated Ulez expansion scheme.
