Times: One of David Cameron’s key climate change advisers said that direct action protests could be justified in the minds of many people to prevent ‘much larger crimes’ being committed. Zac Goldsmith, the multimillionaire environmentalist and Conservative parliamentary candidate, appeared as a defence witness in the trial of six Greenpeace activists charged with causing £30,000 of criminal damage to a power station. Five of the six scaled a 600ft (180-metre) chimney at the Kingsnorth …

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