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 [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/...

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 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...

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. lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

South Wales this morning. More rain ahead. We're nowhere near building landscape resilience to meet the new-normal, let alone what's coming.

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...

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.

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...

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

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"

Lots of dumb stuff in Britain but this is right up there. Buy a train ticket from the official website: £212 Buy train ticket from a random third party website for literally the same journey: £65.05 A £147 mark up just... because?

Seems Your Party has mastered the Labour Party trick of doing something to alienate and frustrate their natural supporters every other day. Impressive work for an organisation that doesn't exist yet.

We at Right to Roam Sheffield will be staging our own trespass to coincide with the national @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

🌀 Every river for everyone. 9 river trespasses are taking place over November to address the inadequate promise of the 9 river walks proposed by the Government last year.

Right to Roam campaigners call for access to all England’s rivers Our local groups are organising 9 river trespasses in November to highlight how inadequate & unworkable the government’s pledge of a mere 9 river walks is: www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together But it's a story with an under-recognised hero 🧵 1/

Seems the fleas have landed.

Well, when you put it like that 🤔

I'm quite happy to "take" a small contribution to stopping Ukrainian citizens being slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands.

So... when exactly is the next piss-beaning?

Brilliant video from @johnharris1969.bsky.social on the Caerphilly by-election. So much of modern Wales captured in fifteen minutes. And the overlooked, never-say-die civic life holding the line against the grifters and conspiracy theorists exploiting our decline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N79j...

Striking that, when you look at the trends on species abundance in the UK (below is from Wales), one of the few conservation success stories is bats. So naturally they're front and center of current government attacks on environmental regulation. Let's make sure we just fail everywhere I guess...

Private security guards, tankerloads of water, and the Trump-supporting billionaire Steven Schwarzman A brilliant short film from @paulwhitewick.bsky.social about his recent experiences walking on public highways around Schwarzman's 2,500-acre Conholt Park Estate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOA...

Relieving result from Caerphilly. Still, nothing good has happened in the Valleys for decades. Until there's a serious vision for its future it will keep being a target for grifters looking to feed on people's worst instincts. "We're not Reform" isn't a vision. Nor is "We're not Labour either."

Shot, chaser. I'm so tired.

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/...

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.

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:

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. 😶😶‍🌫️🫥

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.

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?..." 🤩

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

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/...

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.