Defeating the Third Runway
Yesterday’s court ruling against a third runway at Heathrow was a landmark moment in the international effort to hold governments to account over climate change.
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Ben Smoke is an activist and contributing editor of Huck Magazine. He was one of 15 people convicted of terror-related offences for his part in the blockade of a deportation charter flight at Stansted airport in March 2017.
Yesterday’s court ruling against a third runway at Heathrow was a landmark moment in the international effort to hold governments to account over climate change.
This week’s deportation flight makes clear that the government hasn’t learned the lessons of the Windrush scandal – and intends to make the hostile environment a whole lot worse.