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Just Stop Oil aren’t like the suffragettes

16 November 2022

9:48 PM

16 November 2022

9:48 PM

What do Just Stop Oil protesters have in common with the suffragettes? Their antics of blocking motorways and chucking tomato soup at famous paintings might lead you to think there are few parallels. But Helen Pankhurst – great-granddaughter of Emmeline – thinks they do share some common ground.

Both groups, Pankhurst suggests, are on the right side of history.

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