Sep 3, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
Just Stop Oil are back! Perhaps the world’s most controversial activist group, JSO were rarely out of the headlines a couple of years ago. From their throwing of soup over a Van Gogh painting to the…
Gill TavnerGuest
Tom NicholasHost
I mean, it certainly felt, I guess, like this summer in particular in the UK has been a bit of a wake up call in terms of, I don't know, just walking around and seeing fields and parks and whatever else it is, just like brown where it kind of should be and should be green.
You know, I live in Gloucestershire and we had to close our windows a few nights on the run because we could smell the world burning, actually, where it was burning in Wales, particularly getting to our windows.
And I'm sure most of your listeners, wherever they live in the UK, have not been very far from one of these wildfires.
It can result in blaming the wrong stuff, which the press wants us to do, or it can result in a real anger because we know that the technology we need is there and we know that the capacity for renewable energy is there.
And they've put themselves in this position of responsibility, I prefer to say, rather than a position of power.
And the fury that so many people are feeling and the frustration is, you know, so we sit calmly on a road.
I think it's harder for the press to vilify us now than maybe it was a few years ago.
Yeah, maybe we'll come on to what's going to come next, either for JSO particularly or for the climate movement more broadly in a moment.
I wanted to kind of roll back, I guess, to I think it was March 2025 that Just a Boil kind of, I think, hung up the Hiver's jacket, I think was the phrase that the press release used.
What was some of the decision making behind deciding to pause on actions for some time?
I think The most prominent reason was our demand had always been no new oil and gas licenses.
And we thought, well, even though you don't have absolute faith that they're going to do it, you stand back and give people a chance to do what they've said they'll do.
I mean, it certainly felt, I guess, like this summer in particular in the UK has been a bit of a wake up call in terms of, I don't know, just walking around and seeing fields and parks and whatever else it is, just like brown where it kind of should be and should be green.
You know, I live in Gloucestershire and we had to close our windows a few nights on the run because we could smell the world burning, actually, where it was burning in Wales, particularly getting to our windows.
And I'm sure most of your listeners, wherever they live in the UK, have not been very far from one of these wildfires.
It can result in blaming the wrong stuff, which the press wants us to do, or it can result in a real anger because we know that the technology we need is there and we know that the capacity for renewable energy is there.
And they've put themselves in this position of responsibility, I prefer to say, rather than a position of power.
And the fury that so many people are feeling and the frustration is, you know, so we sit calmly on a road.
I think it's harder for the press to vilify us now than maybe it was a few years ago.
Yeah, maybe we'll come on to what's going to come next, either for JSO particularly or for the climate movement more broadly in a moment.
I wanted to kind of roll back, I guess, to I think it was March 2025 that Just a Boil kind of, I think, hung up the Hiver's jacket, I think was the phrase that the press release used.
What was some of the decision making behind deciding to pause on actions for some time?
I think The most prominent reason was our demand had always been no new oil and gas licenses.
And we thought, well, even though you don't have absolute faith that they're going to do it, you stand back and give people a chance to do what they've said they'll do.
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