Steerpike is no prude but even he has been surprised by some of the blue language from green activists at COP. Temperatures are running high outside the official conference zone, where angel-faced iconoclast Greta Thunberg has been leading protestors in a chorus of ‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’ and telling her devoted followers that it is now time for ‘no more blah blah blah’ and ‘no more whatever the fuck they’re doing in there.’ All this a day after her performance on the Andrew Marr show when Thunberg told the veteran broadcaster she was ‘pissed off’ with world leaders.
So what is behind the sudden transformation from unimpeachable schoolgirl to foul-mouthed teen? Surely the answer is the tried and tested formula of Disney Club star gone bad. Like Miley Cyrus or Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan or Alyssa Milano, Thunberg is growing conspicuously more punk and sweary, as record labels do with child pop stars when they grow up.
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