Jon Moses
@jon-moses
Co-director of Right to Roam 🥾 Co-editor of WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You 🌿
These are not "dangerous tactics". They're de-legitimising journalism reliant on bollocks and tittle tattle, and routing out the culture that feeds it. It's exactly what they should be doing.
The basement dwelling fascists of X trying to "deep state" the bin man is genuinely quite beautiful to behold.
An odd story in which a landowner from Birmingham has purchased a defunct Welsh reservoir (now an influencer beauty spot) and started charging £2 entry in order to "deter public visitation to the site". They seem to think this has removed their liability. In fact, it significantly increases it.
This case is a striking example of the way particular lobby groups hold the centre of gravity in rural affairs. Natural England is supposed to be an independent advisory body to government whose concerns should be: 1) the science 2) the law 3) the protection & restoration of nature 1/3
Minister defends retrospective changes to student loans because 'the government had to bear in mind “fairness to taxpayers as a whole"' Okay then, now do the triple lock.
The government is not in fact committed to making sure that everyone in the country has access to nature. It has committed to no such thing and should not claim it has. Nine river walks and three forests, which include no additional access, will not change that www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"For instance: was ordering mass arrests on half my base a good thing, or a bad thing? Just impossible to say at this point."
It's quite something to see politicians like Luke Akehurst (for whom politics is their job and entire life) and political journalists like Tim Shipman (for whom politics is their job and entire life) unable to do the most basic forms of political analysis, simply because it shatters their worldview.
Pleased to see the @righttoroam.bsky.social cited in its ancillary function as Witchcraft incubator. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Funny to see Farmers Guardian leading with this, since people like Clarkson were the precise reason the 'family farm tax' (aka removal of an inheritance tax exemption for large estates) was introduced in the first place.
I reported the source video to Facebook, which, as a reminder, non-consensually depicts a minor in order to fuel his mass vilification on the internet, leading to calls for this death and so on. Facebook: this is fine, actually. What's your problem?
This charming person is currently sharing far-right ragebait in order to make a spurious attack on the right to roam (one of her pet hates). @batconservation.bsky.social, @badgertrust.bsky.social, Woodland Trust... Are you sure you want to be associated with this person's 'day of action'?
An intolerable violation on the integrity of the countryside...? Or the 'price' of rural kids having a place in nature they can call their own?
Sold out screening of Our Land at Curzon Soho this week. With a feisty Q&A to boot. The distance between ourselves and Hugh Inge-Innes-Lillingston of the Thorpe Estate: a trifling acre or two. The distance to Francis Fulford of Great Fulford: an ocean, a continent, an intergalactic space voyage.
Thanks for all the positive comments about the article. www.inkcap.co.uk/the-welsh-are-reclaiming-rewilding Today I visited Tir Natur, the newest (& largest) Rewilding project in Wales. Early days, lots of rain. But easy to see what this valley could become, once nature is able to take the lead.
In my view: opponents of rewilding in Wales have got a big thing wrong and a big thing right. Wrong: rewilding is not the new clearances. It's a vital mechanism for rural repopulation. And one of our best hopes we have for maintaining and returning young people in rural areas. That's vital.
And to be equal opportunities: here's Plaid's Iorwerth also meeting Wales's favourite climate change denier. They are also pledging to end "farming by calendar", i.e. replace NVZ with a "science-led, outcomes based and risk proportionate" approach. Which sounds like a lot of words for deregulation.
No great surprise that Reform are coming out with a policy to end all NVZ regulations in Wales; in other words to allow slurry dumping to continue poisoning rivers across the country. But curious politics. Their only hope is that there isn't a significant enough Welsh media to explain what it means
Plaid says it wants a "new deal for rural Wales". Great. But it doesn't actually have any policies to achieve one. Instead, all their policies relate solely to farming. Agriculture involves, at most, around 10% of the rural population in Wales. It is not a growth sector.
A couple of years ago I came across a farmer digging up this amazing habitat. He'd misunderstood a (poorly communicated) Welsh government proposal about tree planting, so was felling to create rows of generic trees, which would be far less ecologically valuable. Always have the conversation!
Some excellent announcements in the Welsh Greens Party manifesto today, including plans for a Welsh Right to Roam Act, a Land Reform Act and a National Rewilding Strategy. The Greens could well end up holding the balance of power in the forthcoming Senedd elections...
Absolutely peak Britain that the 'Poppy Factory veterans charity' is dropping Section 21 eviction notices on cancer patients to avoid obligations under the Renters' Rights Act. This country is so itself sometimes. Reporting via @financialtimes.com