Soup and Sunflowers

Why are unspeakably middle-class kids throwing soup at paintings and glueing themselves to walls?

The Painter of Sunflowers — Paul Gauguin (1888)

With the characteristic reasonableness of those who collect their urine and faeces into a jerry can and plaster the contents over statues of national heroes, eco-protestors this week gave the British government an ultimatum. Either the government stops all new oil and gas licenses, or Just Stop Oil and fri…