29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015. Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...

Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion

Port towns freighted with history: Lancaster, Ramsey, Ipswich #WhereTouristsSeldomTread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Chanced on this novel in Ayr Waterstones - the chain’s “Scottish Book of the Month” for June, a nominee in the first Booker, back in 1969. It is a read-in-a-day blinder - at least as good as the Midlands/Yorks social realist fictions of those days, and much more brutally honest.

I wrote about this stretch of canal for the new edition of the Violette Records newsletter, Science & Magic. It's the 3rd edition of my fortnightly 'Magnetic North' contribution. Further signals from 'Ghost Town'. You can subscribe to the newsletter here: www.violetterecords.com/subscribed

Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/ www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...

Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum www.france24.com/en/france/20...

BBC on #overtourism in Europe www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Airbnb boss denies responsibility for #overtourism www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...

Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

This is Runcorn town centre. Huge buildings absolutely empty, derelict. Half empty shopping centre. Grandmothers chatting about their wee Johnny recovering from being stabbed. This isn’t the fault of immigrants or refugees. This is 45 years of constant cuts and neglect from Westminster.

Lancashire, the Red Rose county - historic crucible of industry, seminal in the rise of the Labour movement, ILP and modern party - turned turquoise today. An electoral suicide note.

This is a great radio show - on tango’s zigzagging journey from Buenos Aires to central and eastern Europe; a welcome change from Paris, Piazzolla and the usual fallbacks

The Pennine Way celebrates its 60th birthday with a spur to Lancashire - the Two Toms Trail: www.burnleyexpress.net/arts-and-cul...

The Pennine Way celebrates its 60th birthday with a spur to Lancashire - the Two Toms Trail: www.burnleyexpress.net/arts-and-cul...

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

💪 #DoTheWriteThing #MetaThieves

Doncaster - the point of no return; Carlisle - the midway city; Swansea: westering and wondrous - latest Where Tourists Seldom Tread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Wow. That's a huge deal. I really hope the BBC and C4 see Adolescence for what it is in relation to them: namely a *massive* booming shot across the bows. A brilliant show and furthermore, exactly the kind of show they should be making.

Venice is doubling entry fees for 2025, just one of the latest self-preservationist acts by a city heavily affected by tourism year-round. Find out more: bit.ly/3F1BbAU #venice #veniceitaly #italy #overtourism #masstourism #travel #venezia #greentravel #vacation #springbreak

Ten beautiful bookshops www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...

Women are the future of travel, in the most literal sense: 82% of all travel decisions are already made by women, according to @skift.com. Older women traveling solo are a fast-growing demographic, and many are seeking out single-gender group trips. www.afar.com/magazine/wom...

“A photographer who doesn’t value, reflect on, look at their photographs has died a digital death” The snap v the upload - why holiday photos matter: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comme...

The once venerable Washington Post firmly now en route to D Mail editorial and Express readership stats. Can’t someone launch a UK/Euro delivery service to compete with Amazon? Argentina has one. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

The definitive #walking guide to historic #Kyoto and avoiding #overtourism! Visit amazing places most others will never see! Hidden Paths Kyoto: Walking Historical Kyoto - by @pjacksonmusic.bsky.social www.amazon.com/HIDDEN-PATHS... #travel #Japanese #history

The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Overdevelopment and #overtourism Rice paddies to mega resorts: declassified spy satellite images reveal Bali’s transformation www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Where tourists seldom tread, part 15: three more UK towns with unsung stories

Seldom #15 in Guardian Travel: Dudley, Enniskillen, Middlesbrough - three towns ideal for a spring (cultural) break: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

2024 will set records: 1.53 billion people travelling worldwide; $11.1 trillion - highest contribution from tourism to the global GDP; number of air passengers will surpass 5 billion…. How not to be part of the #overtourism problem: www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-id...

The latest Seldom instalment / Wakefield, Colne and Carmathen www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...

Malta vs cruise ships - Editorial in Times of Malta: “The cost of overtourism on our strained physical infrastructure is not being acknowledged enough”; “940,000 passengers passed through the Valletta cruise port in 2024, breaking a record registered in 2019” timesofmalta.com/article/edit...

From water pistols to ultra-local services to a campaigning football club - six ways communities are tackling #overtourism in Paris, Dubrovnik, Florence, Toronto, Barcelona and Medellin worldcrunch.com/food-travel/...

Independent’s round up of 39 places - from Italian resorts to the Galapagos to the Philippines – trying to manage #overtourism: www.independent.co.uk/travel/susta...

The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, published today, proposes legalising the mass theft of IP by AI companies. And the government has already accepted its recommendations, revealing the ongoing consultation on AI & copyright as a sham. More thoughts here fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opp...

'It’s a little early in the year to be handing out cups, but I doubt that there will be a finer book of non-fiction than this in 2025.' -- Stephen Smith in The Observer yesterday on 'A Quiet Evening' by Norman Lewis. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

World’s richest spend their “fair share” of a year’s carbon in 10 days: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Right-wing media use/recycle #overtourism headlines for political ends - to slight countries, governments - and to get clicks. They rerun old news (minus balance or nuance), under current datelines - this Wales story is from Aug 2024; the date given is 12 Jan 2025: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1998...

UNDERtourism: a handful of intrepid travellers are now going to check out war-torn Ukraine: www.rferl.org/a/war-touris...

You could not pay me to walk through Central Amsterdam on sunny summer weekends. www.insider.com/overtourism-...

Greek islands Santorini and Mykonos to introduce tourist tax to tackle #overtourism www.birminghammail.co.uk/travel/uk-to...

Overtourism in Peak District -drivers double park and block gritters #overtourism www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Where tourists seldom tread, part 14: three English towns form the unlikely end of the Silk Road

Seldom 14 - The English Silk Roads: Lichfield, Jarrow, Southend: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Amazing to see a guidebook being reprinted for its 100th anniversary. Even happier that it’s for South America, and it’s the book I took with me 20 years ago www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/the-s... @traveloguer.bsky.social

In fairness to Barrow - the Lancashire Lakes: amp.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...

‘We’re devastated’: anger as Madrid backtracks on museum plan for site of Robert Capa’s famous civil war photo @swajones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Where Tourists Seldom Tread part 7: silk, leather, studs, treacle, iron, steam, Mars Bars: Stockport, Stockton-on-Tees, Slough, Walsall, Macclesfield, Douglas www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...