Climate activists dressed as suffragettes gathered on the steps of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, ahead of International Women’s Day during a protest organised by Fossil Free London. Demonstrators called for the revocation of the Public Order Act, warning that recent legislation represents a rollback of protest rights in the UK. Activists referenced the sentencing of Just Stop Oil campaigners Phoebe and Anna, who received a combined three-year prison sentence for damaging the frame of a Van Gogh painting with soup, drawing comparisons with suffragette Mary Richardson, who served six months in prison in 1914 for slashing a Velázquez painting in the National Gallery.