CLIMATE activists smashed the windows at the London HQ of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire today in protest at his papers’ coverage of the heatwave. 

Members of Extinction Rebellion also plastered recent copies of the Sun and sprayed “tell the truth, and “40° = death,” on the front of the building at London Bridge as they accused the media mogul’s right-wing rags of downplaying the severity of the heatwave. 

“Instead of warning readers of the increased risks from such heatwaves as the climate crisis intensifies, the Sun chose to cover their front pages in images of women in bikinis, beach-goers and happy toddlers with ice creams,” the group said in a statement. 

The action was taken by two activists, who targeted the offices shared by the Sun and the Times at about 6.30am this morning, on a day when temperatures were set to creep past 40°C in the capital. 

The group said the two “carefully” cracked two windows at the entrance of the site. 

One of the protesters who took part in the action, Caspar Hughes, said the biggest issue stopping government, business and civil society responding to the climate crisis is the “billionaire-owned media.” 

“If Murdoch, Rothermere and Dacre supported net-zero policy, the rest of us would follow suit, “ he said. 

“Currently they are key destroyers of what little hope we have left to secure a safe, secure future for ourselves and our children. 

“It is long past time for them to bring their power to bear as we try to stop our civilisation from collapsing in the coming decades.”