Extinction Rebellion s vandalism betrays its hollow message
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22 April 2021 • 2:00pm
First they came with colour co-ordinated hammers, now they’ve brought stickers and scuba masks too. Extinction Rebellion aims to terrify us all back to the stone age with its apocalyptic message, yet turns up with a toy box. What next, banana bread for the police and a knitting class in the back of a riot van?
Still, at least there was a bit of token vandalism to even things out as the protesters turned their ire on HSBC, smashing 19 windows at the bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters. Having recently graffitied the Bank of England and put a few windows through at Barclays, as a symbol of western finance HSBC was the obvious name to go for next.
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By Ralph Sinclair
22 Apr 2021
Let history show that even though no one even kicked a ball in the European Super League, it still had a winner: JP Morgan.
The outrage that some of Europe’s top football clubs caused in attempting to form their own closed shop league was almost as universal as it was furious. The club owners that launched this scheme on Sunday managed to misjudge mood so utterly that by Tuesday, they were abandoning it like the flaming wreck it always was.
But not everyone involved has emerged a loser. Backing the wheeze with a $3.5bn loan was JP Morgan. Banker bashing has been a sport almost as popular as football since 2008 but with critics lining up to pour scorn on the firm, the reality is that it has done itself proud.