Jon Moses
@jon-moses.bsky.social
Co-director of Right to Roam 🥾
Co-editor of WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You 🌿
https://linktr.ee/jonathanmoses
Co-editor of WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You 🌿
https://linktr.ee/jonathanmoses
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Jon Moses
@jon-moses.bsky.social
· Apr 1
All Hail The Saint
Is Lord Benyon’s 14,000 acre estate an access-to-nature nirvana? That’s the claim of Patrick Galbraith’s new book, Uncommon Ground. Let's investigate.
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Is this 14,000 acre estate in West Berkshire an access-to-nature nirvana? Patrick Galbraith thinks so. This week he took @righttoroam.bsky.social to task for its criticism of the Englefield Estate, owned by the former Conservative Minister in charge of.. access to nature.
I explore the reality 👇
I explore the reality 👇
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.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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.
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.
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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??
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??
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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??
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??
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"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/...
Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.
(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘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’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"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/...
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)
"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)
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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)
"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...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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...
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...
lux-magazine.com/article/priv...
Bringing Sexy Back
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
lux-magazine.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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...
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.
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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...
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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...
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...
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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/...
"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/...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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/...
"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/...
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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.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
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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...
We at Right to Roam Sheffield will be staging ours shortly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Walkers protest over riverbank access
Campaigners take to the banks of the River Dart, calling for the right to access all English rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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...
We at Right to Roam Sheffield will be staging ours shortly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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-...
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.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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-...
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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
We trespassed in an estate owned in the Cayman Islands & later met up with kayakers from Friends of the Dart
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
We trespassed in an estate owned in the Cayman Islands & later met up with kayakers from Friends of the Dart
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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...
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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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...
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"
Effective translation: "regulation would be an outrageous incursion on our right to get paid for doing literally nothing"
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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"
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?
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?
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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?
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.
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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.
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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...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Right to Roam campaigners call for access to walk along all England’s rivers
Activists will stage nine protests where they will trespass on to private land along rivers.
www.standard.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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🌀 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.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🌀 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.
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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...
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...
Right to Roam campaigners call for access to walk along all England’s rivers
Activists will stage nine protests where they will trespass on to private land along rivers.
www.standard.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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...
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...
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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/
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
🧵 1/
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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/
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
🧵 1/
Seems the fleas have landed.
Latest Polling by @YouGov
🟣 Reform 27%
🔵 Tory 17%
🔴 Labour 17%
💚 Green 16%
🟠 Lib Dem 15%
This is the LOWEST Labour
has ever polled with YouGov.
This is the HIGHEST @greenparty.org.uk has ever polled with YouGov.
4 parties within 2 points of each other for second place.
🟣 Reform 27%
🔵 Tory 17%
🔴 Labour 17%
💚 Green 16%
🟠 Lib Dem 15%
This is the LOWEST Labour
has ever polled with YouGov.
This is the HIGHEST @greenparty.org.uk has ever polled with YouGov.
4 parties within 2 points of each other for second place.
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Seems the fleas have landed.
Well, when you put it like that 🤔
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Well, when you put it like that 🤔
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I'm quite happy to "take" a small contribution to stopping Ukrainian citizens being slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands.
There is always money for war, never for the poor.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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?
‘Covered in beans and piss, simply for calling for the mass ethnic cleansing of non white people. Truly I am the real victim here.’
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So... when exactly is the next piss-beaning?