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XR said the protest is over Mr Gove’s decision to green-light a new coal mine in Cumbria.

The protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has released a statement with the clickbait headline “We Quit”. Dashing the hopes of climate denialists everywhere, the group is not shutting up shop (yet), it is merely changing tactics. XR is keeping its options open, saying there is “a controversial resolution to temporarily…

Climate campaign has said it is to temporarily stop using public disruption tactics

Climate protest group says temporary shift will ‘prioritise relationships over roadblocks’

The climate activists said they are making a ‘resolution to temporarily shift’ from disruption tactics because ‘very little has changed’.

Their sit-down protests caused chaos on roads and made them a target for tabloid ire and drivers’ fury. Then an energy crisis hit – and now the government is playing catchup as we shiver in our draughty homes

As police predict more disruption from Just Stop Oil, Kate Wills goes behind the orange banners to learn how the protest group operate—from coping techniques to an emotional support hotline

Focusing on activists only detracts from what we should be angry about, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

'Look at the chaos you've caused,' said one passer-by outside Extinction Rebellion's occupation of Barclays bank in St David's Way