Stu Bamforth

All round angler but with a strong preference for a fly rod, you’ll never see me with a rod over my shoulder though!

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

Our rivers are in https://t.co/bsfNYozAPF your elected councillor and ask them to commit to put rivers first.Use this tool https://t.co/R44kEr2yvg - it only takes 2 minutes.  Thank you,Stu

[Angry Bilic @AngryBilic]

NOT ONE SINGLE FOOTBALL FAN wants to see players get interviewed at half time.

Please stop this noncery @SkySports

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

Petition: Ban non-stun & recoverable stun slaughter of animals https://t.co/F7ttYgaIpr

[Graham Smyth @GrahamSmyth]

FT Manchester United 1-2 Leeds United

The history boys.

#lufc

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🔥 UNITED TAKE ALL THREE POINTS!!!

[MOT @lufc1919ER]

West Ham with the most unlikely comeback on Easter Sunday since Jesus.

Fucking Leeds that.

#lufc

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Ibrahima Konate when there's no danger:

LEROYYY JENKINSSSSS

[Bob Walker @Mantog]

Blog post on our Pitsford piking mission

https://t.co/PatJBV731u

[Richard Prideaux @RichPrideaux]

Wild camping used to be an unspoken contract.
A bivvy on the hill, discreet and temporary.
Camp late, leave early, no trace but a patch of flattened grass.

That was acceptable. More than that - it was part of the tradition of the hills.

Now the contract has snapped.

What we see instead is the festival model: roadside gatherings, Temu tents by the llyn, scorched peat, reels uploaded for the algorithm. The point is no longer to spend a night out, but to show you spent a night out.

Colleagues in the outdoor world mutter about “education.” If only they knew not to light fires on the moor. If only they realised you had to take your mess home with you.

But the issue isn’t ignorance. It’s indifference.

The atomised individual of 2025 values visibility above duty. The hills are just a stage. And once the culture shifts, no code of conduct or glossy leaflet can drag it back.

I’ve written for @scribehound_ctr on how this shift happened, and why the old ethic of quiet wild camping is worth defending.

Link to my articles here (paywalled, but some of the best of British rural writing can be found on the other side):

https://t.co/wYJVWPytpQ

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

DCL has taken the Bamford baton and set off at a fair old lick, seamless transition!

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

💧 Our rivers are in crisis and on the 18th of June, MPs have a chance to stand up for them.

📨 Tell your MP: Be there. Speak up. Fight for water.

Use the link below to send them an email. 2 minutes of your time could make a real impact 💪

👉 https://t.co/kj3KJ8DmaP

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

Ask your MP to show up for water and save the Independent Water Commission.
https://t.co/BN0R0DFJGG

[Jim Murray MBE @TheJimMurray]

We only need 1300 more signatures to force our apathetic gov to respond!

Please share and sign to help save our chalkstreams. 🙌🙌🙌 https://t.co/BHoqGNJZGZ

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

@RichardTong3 Insert I wish my wife this dirty gag here!

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

🪦 This is what a dying river looks like. 🪦

"No, the river isn't green and bright, its brown and full of 💩"

This crisis didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of years of negligence, weak enforcement, and a broken planning system that’s allowed chicken megafarms to multiply unchecked within the Wye valley.

[MattStaniek @MattStaniek]

Two photos taken last week from rivers around Windermere.

One is downstream of a sewage works. The other is from a site with no United Utilities discharges and primarily agricultural input.

Can you guess which is which?

https://t.co/GwHB1Bgsmv

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

Leeds, Leeds, Leeds!!!

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🏆 From Wembley agony to champions!

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🏆 Title winning vibes…

[Phil Hay @PhilHay_]

fuckin brand new by the way