Just Stop Oil will no longer throw soup at paintings as it ends direct action

Has the UK's most loathed protest group really stopped throwing soup?

Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests?

‘Just Stop Oil’ … Stops

“Little doubt that civil disobedience makes the perpetrator feel virtuous. But the anti-CO2, anti-industrialization movement is at war with society, reality, and itself. This fringe is urged to question a false cause with study and reflection … Real environmentalism please!”

The climate protest group Just Stop Oil, known for its "attacks" on artwork and other valuables, has announced that it will carry out its final act of vandalism next month.

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Being hated worked for Just Stop Oil

Protesters outside the Bafta awards in London, March 2022. William Joshua Templeton / shutterstockThe climate activist group Just Stop Oil (JSO) has announced the end of its campaign of direct action. Many will read the group’s legacy through the lens of public hostility: the frustration caused, the angry headlines, the outrage at its tactics. Not only have JSO activists been spat at, physically assaulted and run over by angry car drivers, but 1…

Goodbye to Just Stop Oil. Or Is It?

On the final day of 2022, Extinction Rebellion (XR) announced it had quit. No more would it bedeck major intersections in protest banners, no more would it get its activists carried off by police while reciting well-rehearsed lines about impending climate doom to camera. XR then promptly didn’t quit. Instead, it shifted tactics towards larger protests with ‘less arrestable’ actions (although this is a moveable feast, largely dependent on just ho…