Star columnist Peter Rhodes talks about a 'mornonic mission' to fell the Sycamore Gap tree and more

Two men who carried out a “moronic mission” to fell the beloved Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian's Wall have been jailed for four years and three months for criminal damage. If that's today's benchmark punishment for felling a single tree, then what's the appropriate penalty for the Palestine activists, awaiting trial, who allegedly caused £7 million damage to RAF warplanes at Brize Norton? Concentrates the mind wonderfully, doesn't it?

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