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‘We’re not criminals’: what Just Stop Oil’s poster girls told me

Whatever you think of Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland’s decision to throw soup at one of the world’s most famous paintings, it is undeniable that their act of eco-protest has had an unusual cut-through.

The two Just Stop Oil activists are likely to be given jail terms in September after being found guilty of criminal damage for throwing the contents of two tins of tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery in London.

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