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Why do people come to me with serious questions? I've literally just suggested burning people. Legally, I'd suggest that individuals should be punished according to the crimes they have committed. If they're repeat offenders, they should at some point (depending on the specific nature of their...

What was that camp that was outside Parliament for years protesting about? Quite genuinely, I can't remember.

It's the perfect deterrent.

In the spirit of making the punishment fit the crime, I'd suggest burning them.

Yeah I don't approve of blocking roads without prior notice for that reason. I also seem to remember some nutcase standing on top of a commuter train in London. How the hell does he want people to get to work if not by an electrically powered train? But, thinking that some of the specific...

I don't own a car. I also disapprove of the carbon footprint associated with your proposed action.

I think you may be over-estimating the Crucible's capacity.

Is it? All of those, legally speaking, committed criminal damage or worse in the name of a cause aimed at making the world/country a better place. And plenty of their actions could be viewed as self defeating or absurd, even by people who agree with said cause.

I'm pretty sure most of these can be filed under "straw-man" or "things that are demonstrably happening".

They'd probably think you'd gone mad. And wonder how you'd found their address.

I pay my taxes to have the snooker run on time, I want my money back.

That's not the argument I was commenting on though. Shifting the debate from throwing powder around to a vague "something more sinister" is ridiculous.

I'm not sure locking people up to prevent somebody else committing a different crime is a good idea.

Not really fair to compare the world championship of one sport with a domestic competition in another though.

Seriously though, my (obviously skewed experience) is that the snooker audience is none of those things.

Bowls has an audience?

Since golf does actually have a large environmental impact, that would be a good idea.

Tickets cost about £40. There are significantly richer grey haired audiences that could be protested in front of. Although since it's one of the few sports still on the BBC it probably has a wildly larger TV audience than most people would guess.