What do Extinction Rebellion have against a free press?

One can only hope that the profound political thinkers of Extinction Rebellion took care not to dump cow manure on the wrong steps when they descended en masse to Kensington this week. According to the group, which used the somewhat confusing ‘#Freethepress’ slogan, the target of their protest was Northcliffe House, home of the Daily Mail. Annoyingly for the eco-warriors though, the paper is based in the same building as the Independent, which unfortunately shares pretty similar beliefs to XR: that we are all doomed and will shortly be fried to a crisp by the sun, unless rising sea levels drown us all first.

As part of the stunt, XR drove a rather eco-unfriendly truck down Derry Street to dump the manure while protesting the fact that ‘four billionaires control the majority of our national newspapers’ leading to a ‘corrupt billionaire press that profits from our division and consistently fails to tell the truth on the climate and ecological crisis’.