As I understand it, the 'paint' was coloured corn starch and it has already been cleaned off. We hear a lot of this talk about the tactics of 'Just Stop Oil alienating people and comments like "This does nothing to help their cause" but the point is, 'people' weren't doing anything about the impending climate collapse anyway.

It's hardly as if the general public were just on the verge of radically changing their lifestyles when along came JSO and pissed everybody off so much that they all thought "Fuck it. I'm just going to destroy our only habitable planet now because of those idiots!"

People have had decades to do what was needed and they failed. JSO are working on the (proven) basis that it takes less than 2% of the population to force change through direct action (see suffragettes, see American civil rights movement).

If people cared as much about the continued existence of life on Earth as they do about a bunch of big rocks, or if they cared as much about our future as they do about our past, we wouldn't be in this mess and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

On a lighter note, I couldn't help laughing at the Chief Druid's comment. This is a grown man who enjoys being photographed in front of the stones wearing a white smock, antlers on his head and banging a brightly painted drum. He was quoted as saying the activists were just at Stonehenge looking for attention. Pot and kettle, mate :)