Traffic on Britain’s busiest motorway, the M25, was brought to a standstill for hours this week as a result of protests by environmental group Just Stop Oil. Last month, activists with the group threw cans of tomato soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting in the National Gallery in London. The campaigners are calling on the British government to stop issuing new licenses for gas and oil exploration. But, as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, their tactics are proving divisive.
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