Lessons for sponsors from sport’s biggest summer of protests since the suffragettes August 29, 2023 Sport sponsors need to be clear on what they stand for – not just what they stand next to – if they are to avoid blowback from protests, says marketing expert Matt Readman. This has been the most disrupted summer of sport for over a century. The pitches, courses and tracks of the UK now [...]
Met Police has spent £7.7m policing Just Stop Oil protests since April July 25, 2023 The Metropolitan Police have spent £7.7m policing 13 weeks of Just Stop Oil protests, the force has said. Protestors mounted 515 protests since April and the cost of handling the disruption amounted to the equivalent of 23,500 officer shifts. Actions included slow marches in busy London roads and disrupting major sporting events, and more than [...]
Just Stop Oil disrupt Open Championship Golf as Billy Horschel intervenes (but doesn’t go full Jonny Bairstow) July 21, 2023 American golfer Billy Horschel intervened to help remove protesters who invaded the 17th green at Royal Liverpool on the second day of the Open Championship. The 36-year-old escorted a woman wearing a Just Stop Oil T-shirt covered in orange paint off the green of the Hoylake links and into the custody of a police officer. [...]
Minister backs sports fans to intervene in Just Stop Oil protests – but DON’T ‘do a Jonny Bairstow’ July 7, 2023 Sports fans have been backed by a Home Office minister to intervene against protesters as a funder of the Just Stop Oil environmental group insisted its activists’ actions are “vital”. Events have been told to put more stewards and injunctions in place to prevent disruption from protesters as policing minister Chris Philp backed spectators acting [...]
Starmer speech interrupted by climate activists calling for ‘green new deal’ July 6, 2023 Sir Keir Starmer’s speech on education reform was interrupted by protesters calling for a “green new deal.”
Shell boss warns cutting oil and gas production would be ‘dangerous’ July 6, 2023 The boss of Shell has warned that slashing oil and gas production now would be “dangerous and irresponsible."
Energy sector workers fear UK jobs could vanish in net zero push July 6, 2023 More than half of workers operating in the oil and gas sector fear the shift towards net zero will put their jobs at risk within two years.
Just Stop Oil removed by Harrods security after attempting slow march in luxury London store July 5, 2023 Just Stop Oil (JSO) supporters have marched through luxury department store Harrods in the latest stunt in the group’s ongoing protest action. The activists were pictured holding placards on an escalator in the Knightsbridge shop, before security bundled a photographer out of the building, JSO said. A number of slow marches were held on Wednesday [...]
Shapps: Labour ‘sponsored by Just Stop Oil’ in light of ‘bonkers’ fossil fuel project ban July 4, 2023 Shapps has reaffirmed his support for domestic fossil fuel projects, as approval for the largest undeveloped oil and gas field looms.
Labour and Just Stop Oil donor says there’s “no kind of deal” on party policy July 2, 2023 Green energy industrialist Dale Vince has denied being “an eco-zealot” as he defended his £1.5m donations to Labour. Vince told Sky News he was not seeking to influence leader Sir Keir Starmer by giving cash to the party and that there was not “some kind of deal going on”. The Ecotricity owner accused the “right [...]