Activists wielding vegan baguettes didn't stand a chance against Putin, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV By Christopher Stevens Published: 22:00, 9 June 2024 | Updated: 22:00, 9 June 2024 e-mail View comments On Thin Ice: Putin vs Greenpeace (BBC2) Rating: When part-time anarchists and trust fund socialists with private school educations glue themselves to the tarmac of the M25, to ' Just Stop Oil ', I sometimes wonder why they don't go and do it in Moscow . After all, Russia's exports of fossil fuels are colossal, dwarfing UK consumption, despite international sanctions imposed after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine . A protest in Red Square is bound to be far more effective .
. . isn't it? On Thin Ice: Putin vs Greenpeace is a first-hand account of what happens when eco-warriors provoke the Kremlin.
It also emphasises why, instead of despising Western democracy, Left-wing professional protestors should be profoundly grateful for the freedoms they abuse — because the alternative is ugly. On Thin Ice: Putin vs Greenpeace is a first-hand account of what happens when eco-warriors provoke the Kremlin Most of the crew were not so much courageous as hopelessly naive. One woman, a 27-year-old marketing executive called Alex, hadn't even told her mum and dad in Devon what she was up to Read More An irrepressible maverick who used his own health battles to transform millions of lives Drawing on video shot by the crew of the Arctic Sunrise, a yacht with an icebreaker's bow, .
