Shoeless Ben has ‘climate change anxiety’

A tree surgeon who scaled Big Ben dressed in a Boris Johnson wig and a leprechaun green leotard has been ordered to perform 250 hours of unpaid work. Benjamin Atkinson, 44, clambered up the world famous monument during his Extinction Rebellion protest on October 18 last year. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard Atkinson made the 285 mile trip from his hermitage in Cumbria to scale Elizabeth Tower. He then unfurled a rainbow flag from the scaffolding carrying the XR logo which…