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Whether it’s activists gluing themselves to roads or upending supermarket dairy products, radical climate protests are everywhere. Tom Ellen talks to the campaigners — and police — to find out what goes into these acts… and how much it’s all likely to achieve

Some say the protests are counterproductive, while others insist the tactics are beside the point.

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18

I am bemused by the reaction to the climate salvation protests, which include some journalists suggesting motorists assault protesters when they glue themselves to the road. (Their obvious intentions are littered with lawyerly caveats, which is offensive. Euphemisms are for the cowardly and lost).