Jon Moses

Shot, chaser.

I'm so tired.

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

An act of naked political vandalism.

Surely the end of any dwindling claim the Conservatives have to being a serious party.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A reactionary radical’s case against progress It would be easy enough, I think, to caricature this new book by Paul Kingsnorth. I know little enough about him – he is, to judge from the photos and

Brilliant review in the TLS of the latest Kingsnorthian moon-howl. Gently puts to bed the MAGAfication of everything from religion to vaccines to solar farms to wind turbines to... (on and on and on and on...) [£]

www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...

I don't know what's more insane: this story that the ex leader of the Welsh Reform Party has plead guilty to being bribed by the Russians to regurgitate their talking points in the European parliament, or that the UK Labour party have... barely mentioned it? And instead are churning out utter dross?

A new generation is carrying forward the spirit of the original Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.
Watch the full film here -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKsK...

Guess he didn't get the memo that good things are bad things, actually.

what fresh hell is this

We've now had ten DEFRA secretaries in a space of ten years.

The brief is huge. The problems are manifold and complex. The politics are difficult.

Really not surprising that so many environmental and agricultural issues are stuck in the muck.

Great to hear that @timfarron.bsky.social expressed support for a default right of responsible access at the recent Lib Dem conference fringe event 'Roam, Rewild, Restore' - speaking alongside @jon-moses.bsky.social and others:

YouTube video by Garys Economics The Changing Shape of Great Britain

One of the best tl;dr explainers I've seen re: how accelerating wealth inequality is reshaping the spatial politics of Britain. Relevant for everything from the far-right resurgence to the hollowing out of small towns & the 'gerontrification' of the countryside.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMRS...

A hostile foreign power captures your primary communications platform and explicitly manipulates it to promote extremism and incite "civil war".

The government: oh, okay then.

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I feel like not enough attention has been given to the fact the journalist claimed it worked

As a friendly chap called Mohammed, with the broadest Welsh valleys accent going, comes out to fix my car today, I am moved to tell @reform-uk-official.bsky.social that they can absolutely get to fuck.

You're the coloniser. Get your shit race-baiting politics out of my country.

Yours, a Welshman.

See also: national sovereignty

I'll be speaking at the @libdems.org.uk conference this weekend on behalf of @righttoroam.bsky.social.

'Roam, Rewilding, Restore'

Saturday, 1pm.

It's outside the secure zone so don't need a conference ticket to attend.

See some of you there?

A farmer finds two wild campers on his land, and....

"...whips a £20 note from his pocket for the cause [picking up litter], asking, “Is that enough?”
This is the first time either of us have been paid for camping.
“Have you got everything you need?..."

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This should be the bare minimum response. How about forcing X to take its responsibilities as a publisher seriously?

Country diary: Finding common ground when you least expect it | Eben Muse Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field

Love this Country Diary from @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social, in which another countryside is gleaned from the most unexpected of moments.

It also echoes what I've experienced in other countries where access to land is assumed and normal. Reciprocity follows.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every great Labour Government has expanded access; whether that be CROW in 2000, the Countryside Act in 1968 or the National Parks and Countryside Act in 1949.

This Government should follow suit; bringing in Scottish style right to roam, a right to wild camp and a right to swim. A lasting legacy

Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.

American billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, founder of Blackstone & owner of the 2,500-acre Conholt Park shooting estate in Wiltshire, has been tankering in huge quantities of water from drought-struck Hampshire to fill up his lake (legally, but outrageously):

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

X is basically a hate factory for racist delusion now. And.. there just doesn't seem to be much / any conversation about what we do about that?

The 'For you' feed is wall-to-wall far-right delirium. The algorithm has obviously been engineered to drive it. If it was Russia would we be so complacent?

Russell Brand now conducting supportive interviews with Tommy Robinson.

Truly, one of history's most breathtaking charlatans.

When I was a student some stuffy old writers were petitioning to make the British Library an even more exclusive place.

I love that @britishlibrary.bsky.social not only said 'stuff that' but went completely the other way. Kids play areas. College students doing their homework. A truly public space.

This was your attack line btw @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Instead of chasing Farage down the drain as per.

As to the substance, it seems he understands the aims of rewilding about as well as he understands the concept of access reform.

Perhaps one day the Telegraph will cease painting with crayons.

Alas, it is not this day.

There is nothing natural about rewilding It is not a panacea that will revive the nation’s beleaguered wildlife; man-made features provide them with essential habitat

Lots of people rightly dunking on this silly piece about Big Rewilding.

I can't help also noticing the piece includes an anecdote about an interviewee aggrieved at the reporting by this particular journalist.

All dismissed by them, of course.

Curious how that keeps happening though, isn't it 🤔

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Shilling fear in all its guises

Some of this is clearly criminal damage, for which appropriate sentencing has been given. Some of it seems poorly targeted.

It is beyond me how any of it can be seriously described as "terrorism", no matter how hard Yvette Cooper works her thesaurus.

She should retract this nonsense and resign.

Finally she cites an "underground manual" (her spin) encouraging the creation of "cells" (her spin) and "practical guidance on how to identify targets and evade law enforcement".

In other words, it's a standard direct action manual. I presume she brands it a "cell" to make them sound like Al-Qaida.