Four Just Stop Oil activists – whom the group has dubbed ‘The Manchester Four’ – have been jailed after being convicted of conspiracy to intentionally cause a public nuisance at Manchester airport last August. The Minshull Crown Court heard the eco-warriors were arrested after planning to glue themselves to the taxiway. Each were ordered to pay a £2,000 fine, with the four given the following sentences:
Any Just Stop Oil activists left will be pleased the group has decided to give up on protest stunts…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”