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.
open.substack.com
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 👇
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Part of this v.good series is a paper on how community land ownership and 'civic environmentalism' can drive hyper-local nature recovery, featuring a brilliant Community Land Trust in a detailed case study.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Part of this v.good series is a paper on how community land ownership and 'civic environmentalism' can drive hyper-local nature recovery, featuring a brilliant Community Land Trust in a detailed case study.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
This is an excellent piece of environmental communication about the recent Monnow flood, which hit my town recently & caused really significant damage to homes and businesses (most of which are still closed, including the supermarkets).
Calm, factual, even-handed.
open.spotify.com/episode/2ijU...
Calm, factual, even-handed.
open.spotify.com/episode/2ijU...
Ep. 047: Monmouth Floods Discussion
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is an excellent piece of environmental communication about the recent Monnow flood, which hit my town recently & caused really significant damage to homes and businesses (most of which are still closed, including the supermarkets).
Calm, factual, even-handed.
open.spotify.com/episode/2ijU...
Calm, factual, even-handed.
open.spotify.com/episode/2ijU...
And I see we're casually abolishing trial by jury in most instances now.
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
I try and be a 'normally a more complex explanation' sort of guy but everything about the Palestine Action ban has stunk of horseshit from the start.
Hope you're drafting that resignation letter, Yvette.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hope you're drafting that resignation letter, Yvette.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
And I see we're casually abolishing trial by jury in most instances now.
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
I try and be a 'normally a more complex explanation' sort of guy but everything about the Palestine Action ban has stunk of horseshit from the start.
Hope you're drafting that resignation letter, Yvette.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hope you're drafting that resignation letter, Yvette.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I try and be a 'normally a more complex explanation' sort of guy but everything about the Palestine Action ban has stunk of horseshit from the start.
Hope you're drafting that resignation letter, Yvette.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hope you're drafting that resignation letter, Yvette.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Beautiful piece about a group of young people who ignored the cynics, critics and gatekeepers and just cracked on restoring nature, bringing as many people as they could along for the ride.
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Beautiful piece about a group of young people who ignored the cynics, critics and gatekeepers and just cracked on restoring nature, bringing as many people as they could along for the ride.
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Right to Roam social @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social is sold out but there are still tickets to see OUR LAND: a brilliant documentary about the campaign. Showing Sunday.
Q&A with me, @amyjanebeer.bsky.social & Nadia to follow.
Tickets here: tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/68e...
Q&A with me, @amyjanebeer.bsky.social & Nadia to follow.
Tickets here: tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/68e...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Right to Roam social @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social is sold out but there are still tickets to see OUR LAND: a brilliant documentary about the campaign. Showing Sunday.
Q&A with me, @amyjanebeer.bsky.social & Nadia to follow.
Tickets here: tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/68e...
Q&A with me, @amyjanebeer.bsky.social & Nadia to follow.
Tickets here: tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/68e...
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Nathan Gill's social media bio...
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Nathan Gill's social media bio...
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope.
He was the head of Reform in Wales.
How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?
The actions of the Environment Agency in this case will (rightly) fill most ordinary people with incredulity.
A visit to "monitor" what is obviously colossal illegal activity. No attempt to block the site. To action to prevent further dumping. And so on it went.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A visit to "monitor" what is obviously colossal illegal activity. No attempt to block the site. To action to prevent further dumping. And so on it went.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils
Evidence of waste from primary schools and local authorities in south-east England points to possible large-scale corruption, expert says
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The actions of the Environment Agency in this case will (rightly) fill most ordinary people with incredulity.
A visit to "monitor" what is obviously colossal illegal activity. No attempt to block the site. To action to prevent further dumping. And so on it went.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A visit to "monitor" what is obviously colossal illegal activity. No attempt to block the site. To action to prevent further dumping. And so on it went.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Anecdotal but... seeing some pretty chonky house price reductions (10<25%) in my rural region at the moment. Especially the bits which aren't honeypot (AONB / National Park).
Still out of reach of most ordinary people.. But wonder if that contradiction is about to finally materialise. Crash coming?
Still out of reach of most ordinary people.. But wonder if that contradiction is about to finally materialise. Crash coming?
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Anecdotal but... seeing some pretty chonky house price reductions (10<25%) in my rural region at the moment. Especially the bits which aren't honeypot (AONB / National Park).
Still out of reach of most ordinary people.. But wonder if that contradiction is about to finally materialise. Crash coming?
Still out of reach of most ordinary people.. But wonder if that contradiction is about to finally materialise. Crash coming?
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Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Performative cruelty.
Enjoy your Tommy Robinson endorsement and single digit polling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Enjoy your Tommy Robinson endorsement and single digit polling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Performative cruelty.
Enjoy your Tommy Robinson endorsement and single digit polling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Enjoy your Tommy Robinson endorsement and single digit polling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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.