The Daily Mail guide to not condemning manhandling Just Stop Oil protesters

HERE at the Mail we would never encourage the public to assault eco-protesters. Do NOT take the law into your own hands with these hippy scum who deserve a good kicking. Here’s how.

Don’t drag them off the road

Grabbing them might be considered assault. And if you inadvertently catch their hi-vis vest on your belt buckle and accidentally bounce their stupid hippy face on the kerb several times, that would be terrible too. Boo hoo hoo.

Don’t carry them off Lord’s Cricket Ground

They’re only ruining the Ashes, a sacred English sporting event, and thereby spitting in the faces of St George, Winston Churchill and our beloved deceased Queen. So that’s fine. Don’t give them a harmless helping hand off the pitch, even if they’d rightly be strung up for treason in more respectful times.

Don’t give them a nudge with your 4×4

Apparently it’s ‘wrong’ to give eco-zealots a gentle tap with your 4×4. And if you understandably misjudge pressing down the accelerator and run over them, that would be awful as well, supposedly. How ridiculous. Your Land Rover Evoque is just a tiny little city runaround – only about the size of a Panzer Mk II – so there’s no chance of them getting hurt.

Don’t use reasonable force

If you’re male, don’t tackle these eco-terrorists with the bare minimum of force, such as shoving, lifting them out of the way, or stamping on their testicles. No, be a spineless, effeminate nancy boy who your kids don’t respect and your wife can’t bear to have sex with. It’s the right thing to do. 

Don’t form an angry mob

Britain’s woke, emasculated police don’t look kindly on you teaming up with other inconvenienced road users to move protesters off the road. It’s not as if anything bad could happen, like one of a mob of total strangers being a genuine psycho who puts someone in intensive care. Honestly, it’s ‘elf and safety gone mad. 

Don’t call them middle-class bastards while punching them

This isn’t a class issue, apart from them being spoilt middle-class brats trying to stop honest working-class people earning a living while they smoke drugs on a Transgender Studies course at some Marxist ‘university’ – which YOU pay for. So don’t give them a good, honest smack in the mouth, as any self-respecting working man would do.

Don’t run amok with a chainsaw

At the Mail we firmly believe there is never any excuse for taking a chainsaw from the back of your white van and carving off the arms, legs and heads of these Just Stop Oil fiends. Even if the nation is 100 per cent totally behind you and no jury in the land would ever convict. So definitely don’t do that. Nudge nudge. Wink Wink.

Genesis, and other artists who won't be having a TikTok renaissance

KYLIE, Fleetwood Mac and Kate Bush have all found new, young audiences via TikTok. But which ‘legacy artists’ will never be considered cool enough to follow suit?

Genesis

Despite being one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, Genesis are never going to be embraced by Gen Z. Phil Collins has the look and demeanour of a friend’s dad who has come upstairs to tell you off for vaping indoors, and there’s no way I Can’t Dance is going to end up on the Stranger Things soundtrack. Because it’s shit.

East 17

If you’re over a certain age, East 17 are still lodged in your consciousness due to Stay Another Day, but the younger generation doesn’t give a shit about old people’s Christmas songs, and East 17 were so bad that you can’t even like them ironically. However, Brian Harvey’s escapade involving running himself over after eating too many baked potatoes could definitely start one of those dangerous TikTok crazes the youth are so fond of.

Jethro Tull

TikTok users love a weird genre mash-up, but even they couldn’t cope with the prog-folk-jazz-blues-classical fusion of Jethro Tull. Everyone loses their mind when Lizzo gets her flute out, but what they don’t know is that Ian Anderson was doing it years before, albeit while dressed as a sort of futuristic space pirate standing on one leg.

Right Said Fred

The Fairbrass brothers may have briefly registered with people under the age of 25 when Taylor Swift credited them for using the rhythm from I’m Too Sexy in her song Look What You Made Me Do. However, these days they’re best known for spreading Covid conspiracy theories on Twitter, and have zero relevance to youth culture. Or maybe the World Health Organisation secretly controls the charts, which is why their last single only reached number 54 in Germany.

Black Lace

The average TikTok user was mercifully not born when Black Lace were assaulting our ears at school discos in the late 70s and early 80s. Given the complexity of the choreography that goes into viral TikTok dances now, Gen Z would view the embarrassingly basic moves to Superman with the sort of anthropological condescension usually reserved for early attempts at cave painting. Plus the fact that the screeching Spitting Image pisstake of their biggest hit was actually a better piece of music than the original.