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
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
💧 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
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
🪦 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.
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