Scratch an environmentalist, find a massive hypocrite. Yes, for all their talk of the ‘climate emergency’, for all their demands that ordinary people stop driving, stop flying and dispense with our supposedly selfish, consumerist ways, it seems that today’s climate campaigners are always struggling to practise what they preach.

Shelagh Day is the latest green campaigner to have been exposed by the tabloids with seemingly minimal investigative effort. Day is the woman who threw orange confetti at former UK chancellor George Osborne at his wedding two weeks ago, in apparent tribute to Just Stop Oil. Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday revealed that a few years back she went on a three-week getaway to Thailand – a 10,000-mile round trip that almost certainly involved burning plentiful amounts of hydrocarbons.

Despite the increasing militancy of today’s climate campaigners – who are demanding an immediate end to fossil fuels and a painful reining in of modern life – it seems that few of them are immune to the lure of a faraway foreign holiday.