Well I'd hardly call Max Hastings a 'left wing' bully but - just to show there is nothing new under the sun in what people perceive as a fight for 'justice' I include the following newspaper report

(BTW I'm not sure what 'The Cause' is referred to above but
other 'causes' have been publicized by window breaking)

London November 26, 1910, Saturday New York Times

"Twenty suffragettes who were arrested during the night for smashing windows in the Government offices were sentanced in the Bow Street police court today each to two months imprisonment"