Just Stop Oil are their own worst enemies. I support their aims and I do my best to minimise my carbon footprint. I haven’t flown since 1993, I don’t own a car and I have eleven solar panels on my roof, but I’m losing patience with the movement. Meeting the JSO activists who disrupted a West End play only confirmed my suspicions that the movement has gone off the rails.
Weir and Walsh evidently care about the planet, yet they seem to lack ordinary human sympathy
Most people think the protestors who sabotaged Sigourney Weaver’s performance as Prospero at London’s Drury Lane theatre in January are a nuisance. Not JSO. Earlier this month, they scheduled a Zoom meeting in which the pair – referred to as ‘the stars of The Tempest’ – offered to explain their decision to halt a West End show.
‘Hayley [Walsh] and Richard [Weir] will be sharing what motivated them to take action, what it felt like to step into the spotlight and what happened afterwards,’ we were told before the encounter.
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