Jon Moses

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

Beautiful piece about a group of young people who ignored the cynics, critics and gatekeepers and just cracked on restoring nature, bringing as many people as they could along for the ride.

"Action, access and agency".

You want a rural revival? This is it.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Right to Roam social @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social is sold out but there are still tickets to see OUR LAND: a brilliant documentary about the campaign. Showing Sunday.

Q&A with me, @amyjanebeer.bsky.social & Nadia to follow.

Tickets here: tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/68e...

Nathan Gill's social media bio...

They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.

He was the head of Reform in Wales.

How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?

Unfortunately this is also of a piece with how they approach other illegal activity on land and water, especially where it interacts with interests which enjoy a mysterious aura of impunity.

Massively underfunded and beleaguered, yes. But there is also a serious leadership problem.

‘Public warned you for years about wasteland - why were you so slow to act?’ A shocking case of illegal dumping first uncovered by KentOnline has been singled out as evidence of “multiple failings” by environmental authorities.

When you discover that this is in line with exactly how they behaved in a near-identical case just last year, most ordinary people might begin to absolutely lose their shit.

www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news...

Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils Evidence of waste from primary schools and local authorities in south-east England points to possible large-scale corruption, expert says

The actions of the Environment Agency in this case will (rightly) fill most ordinary people with incredulity.

A visit to "monitor" what is obviously colossal illegal activity. No attempt to block the site. To action to prevent further dumping. And so on it went.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anecdotal but... seeing some pretty chonky house price reductions (10<25%) in my rural region at the moment. Especially the bits which aren't honeypot (AONB / National Park).

Still out of reach of most ordinary people.. But wonder if that contradiction is about to finally materialise. Crash coming?

Popping back for something important…

This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."

But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.

Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

Performative cruelty.

Enjoy your Tommy Robinson endorsement and single digit polling.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Speaking at the Scottish Outdoor Access Network annual conference today about the situation over the border.

Always struck by how far ahead the conversation is in Scotland. How quaint and bizarre they find the approach to access in the south. Everything is impossible until it's just the new normal.

Successful @righttoroam.bsky.social N.W. trespass today.

A couple of us from our Sheffield group attended to be inspired and take note for our upcoming trespass on 6th or 7th December!

Peaks, South Yorks... Who's in??

‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30 Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’

"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.”

Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.

(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dunno guys, just feels like maybe we should rethink the rural economy a wee bit?

Reading interviews with young people about their experiences living in rural Wales and, well...

"Everyone is old and dying. All the youth that can leave, do leave, for University or work. The only youth who are left are here because they don't have the capability to leave." (Male, Carmarthenshire)

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says

A powerful example of what can happen when we ignore the feudal structures controlling the land beneath our feet. The nonsense of leasehold needs to be abolished.

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

This essay focuses on sexuality but I think it's consistent across the culture of the 'online' left in the past decade+. Manifest in everything from friends who earnestly prefix every conviction statement with disclaimers. Or the displacement of ordinary disagreements with emotive superinjunctions.

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

Powerful essay on the pathologization of everyday life. It's curious how much of progressive online culture became about iterations of original sin, rather than examining situational beliefs. Shame and trauma is valorised at the expense of curiosity or transcendence.
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South Wales this morning. More rain ahead. We're nowhere near building landscape resilience to meet the new-normal, let alone what's coming.

Nine-month-old baby killed by XL bully, Gwent police confirm Family pet that attacked infant in village of Rogiet on Sunday had certificate of exemption, force says

Another XL Bully fatality, this one a 9 month old baby from the village next to where I grew up. A totally avoidable tragedy.

Proper Intervention on dogs - not just for breeds, but for breeding - & licensing and certification for owners, is now long overdue.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William

This is absolutely appalling.

"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."

Absolutely pathetic.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

Walkers protest over riverbank access Campaigners take to the banks of the River Dart, calling for the right to access all English rivers.

Numerous @righttoroam.bsky.social groups are staging coordinated river trespasses this month to highlight lack of access in and around our waterways.

We at Right to Roam Sheffield will be staging ours shortly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero' The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Great trespass along the River Dart today to kick off @righttoroam.bsky.social's 9 river trespasses in November - protesting the inadequacy & unworkability of the Govt's 9 river walks pledge

We trespassed in an estate owned in the Cayman Islands & later met up with kayakers from Friends of the Dart

A line in the sand: the fence dividing residents in Sandbanks Residents in Sandbanks are arguing over access to a beach which has been fenced off by homeowners.

Only 8 percent of land in England is freely accessible to the public

Now these entitled f*ckwits want to reduce this figure even further

Call it beach or foreshore - the coastal margins of the UK belong to everyone

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enjoyed this quote from the Residential Freehold Association objecting to measures to clamp down on the scam of ground rents.

Effective translation: "regulation would be an outrageous incursion on our right to get paid for doing literally nothing"

Economist and campaigner would be reasonable I think...

But only if you apply 'shameless grifter' as the correct epithet for Goodwin