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!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent."

That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years.

Really, what is the point?

https://t.co/wEGvMugosA

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

Thames Water is buried in debt, customers are paying more, and our rivers continue to suffer. I have emailed Andy Burnham to put Thames Water into Special Administration NOW. You can too https://t.co/a1nONXUp6o

[Ruby Quinn @RubyQNUFC]

Hi @andyburnham we pay £60 a month for Sky Sports and TNT Sports, yet that still only gives us access to 70% of the games.

Meanwhile, fans in Singapore pay £25 a month and can watch every single match.

This is the English league, yet English fans are paying more and getting less. Surely that can’t be right.

Please can you look into this and make the coverage fairer for fans in England?

We shouldn’t have to pay a premium just to watch our own league. No wonder many fans buy dodgy firesticks!

[Tom Parker Bowles @tomparkerbowles]

Why I'll never eat farmed salmon again: It's the most popular fish in Britain, but the Mail's star food writer TOM PARKER BOWLES reveals why he won't be getting it again... and the truth about the 'organic' label | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/wHLIrKyOqg

[Stu Bamforth @StuBamforth]

https://t.co/cvbnM0JniK

[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.