*Extinction Rebellion co-founder [convicted] of breaking window at HS2 protest.*

For me, to be "guilty" and to be "convicted" are not the same thing at all. The former is a moral question and the latter is a judicial question. The article describes the result of a trial in which the accused was forbidden to explain the issue at stake.

The issue at stake was whether to build the high-speed train line HS2. I have never been convinced that building it was a mistake. I have never seen a convincing explanation of why high-speed train lines were not useful in Britain given how useful they are in France and Spain.