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You’re no Rosa Parks, Lily

Read Mick Hume in The Times (London) on the Lily-ban’s hijack of Stansted airport protests.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Topics Politics

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Tuesday 9 December:

‘A hijacking disrupted flights at Stansted yesterday. Fifty posh-kid climate-change protesters, whose spokesperson was called Lily, hijacked the local campaign against the airport’s expansion. The “Lily-ban” used it as a media pulpit to sermonise about the evils of man-made global warming…’

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