More of Just Stop Oil’s eco-army have scored stints in the clink this afternoon. Joining recently sentenced Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam…
Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw Heinz soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in 2022. Causing £10,000 worth of damage to its 300-year-old frame…
Judge Christopher Hehir has sentenced Plummer to two years and the other to 20 months just now. There are, as co-conspirators might imagine, two bail conditions:
Plummer defended herself by saying: “I intended to shine a light on the climate crisis and on the cost of living crisis.” She can shine a light on the prison wall from now on…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”