It’s over. Just Stop Oil is “hanging up the hi-vis” and will cease its campaign of direct action by the end of April. But after three years of throwing orange paint at things, why is the group throwing in the towel now?
Of course, it doesn’t help that the vanguard of JSO activists — including the organisation’s leader, Roger Hallam — are currently in prison. The plan was that their high-profile stunts would inspire enough acts of civil disobedience to gum up the court system and challenge the authorities, but the hoped-for scale of resistance never materialised.
