Police have arrested dozens of environmental protesters who blocked several junctions on the UK’s busiest motorway. The protests—aimed at forcing the government to improve home insulation—at various chokepoints on the M25 caused long delays for tens of thousands of motorist. Some motorists on the scene reacted angrily, with social media footage showing one attempting to drag a protester out of a blockade at the lights on a motorway roundabout—before police arrived. At least 74 people were arrested. Although the tactics and goals are similar, the group has no explicit link to Extinction Rebellion that over the last two weeks has also tried to rally people to its environmental cause by deliberately causing disruption. Protesters who favour disruptive tactics were given a boost by recent appeal rulings that overturned convictions related to various controversial protest methods. However, it comes as a new policing bill, which aims to stymy precisely this kind of …