The end of the world is nigh! (well, in a few decades, anyway)

The founder of Extinction Rebellion handed security guards home grown salad when they tried to detain him for criminal damage, a court has heard. Roger Hallam, 52, sprayed the walls of King’s College London with the words ‘divest from oil and gas’ in protest against the prestigious university’s investment policy on two occasions. When university security guards intervened in the protest, the veteran protester handed them salad he had grown on his farm as a gift. Giving evidence today [weds],…