Probably a good example of a repair made using unyielding Portland cement, rather than traditional lime mortar that would allow movement.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

I reported the source video to Facebook, which, as a reminder, non-consensually depicts a minor in order to fuel his mass vilification on the internet, leading to calls for this death and so on.

Facebook: this is fine, actually. What's your problem?

An interesting further comment on this.

Had a little taste of this when I removed a pointless style on land my charity owns and manages. Days and days of seething insults and threats, but lucky for us we were white: Didn’t tick quite as many boxes for the right-wing rage machine.

You can tell a lot about a man from who his friends are...

Great debunking of some nasty ragebait. Not at all surprised to see Rupert Lowe's appalling Restore Britain involved - I'm sure they've played a part in whipping up the Epsom situation.

The far-right and a dry stone wall a viral video promoted by racists is not what it seems

There is a viral video going around on X and Facebook which has been seized on by the far-right.

It claims to show a young British Asian destroying a dry stone wall.

But as so often with such ragebait, the video isn't what it seems.

Here is my, probably forlorn, attempt to correct the record.

The far-right and a dry stone wall a viral video promoted by racists is not what it seems

This is an instructive read from @jon-moses.bsky.social - honest enough to say he does not know the full story but challenging the pile-on from the usual suspects who are less interested in what the situation is than in fuelling yet more hate.
jonmoses.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...

Do you wish to read a parable about how the far right weaponises rural politics and a faux desire to protect the aesthetics of the countryside?

Here is another incredibly necessary piece from @jon-moses.bsky.social :

The far-right and a dry stone wall a viral video promoted by racists is not what it seems

There is a viral video going around on X and Facebook which has been seized on by the far-right.

It claims to show a young British Asian destroying a dry stone wall.

But as so often with such ragebait, the video isn't what it seems.

Here is my, probably forlorn, attempt to correct the record.

The far-right and a dry stone wall a viral video promoted by racists is not what it seems

yes, just wrote this on the same theme: open.substack.com/pub/jonmoses...

This guy Bembridge is deputy editor of Country Squire Magazine, which had to pay Chris Packham £90k plus costs for libel/defamation for untrue attacks/harassment. Worth joining the dots to see how the hard right is active in all spheres: urban, rural, health, countryside, wildlife.
Sociopaths.

Yes, it's lost in derangement.

I spotted this recently as well, in a reserve near Sheffield. Extraordinary.

H/T @pete-m.bsky.social

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social - she's also using you to promote her 'day of action', just fyi.

(and, as anyone with half a brain cell can see, the video she's amplifying is manipulated nonsense, currently being spread all across the internet by racist accounts)

This charming person is currently sharing far-right ragebait in order to make a spurious attack on the right to roam (one of her pet hates).

@batconservation.bsky.social, @badgertrust.bsky.social, Woodland Trust...

Are you sure you want to be associated with this person's 'day of action'?

An intolerable violation on the integrity of the countryside...?

Or the 'price' of rural kids having a place in nature they can call their own?

"Claims that rewilding threatens our food security – already a spurious assertion in England – hold even less water in Wales. Our farms mostly produce lamb and beef, the overwhelming majority of which is exported. Just 5% is consumed within Wales itself."

“Conservation” should be a more controversial term than “rewilding” imo.

Restoring nature and, therefore, wildness should not be.

Orchids can do quite well with solar, just fyi. Especially compared with the land uses they tend to replace.

Dog walker beaten by horse trainer Evan Williams says his jail is term too soft Martin Dandridge, 72, had his arm broken in the attack, leaving him with “ongoing pain” in his forearm.

Behind unhinged cases like this: the law of trespass. A legal fiction which invents an antagonism.

It need not exist.

We need to move away from a system which encourages landowners to fantasise they're under attack simply because of the presence of another human.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our Land cinema poster

Our Land
Screening on Tue 9th June, Verdant Taproom, Penryn.

OUR LAND takes us to the heart of the ‘Right to Roam’ movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning and education
www.tickettailor.com/events/verda...

Distribution - Our Land — MetFilm Studio

Full list of screenings, more being added every week 👀

www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...

The panel on stage at The Curzon Cinema, Soho

The Cinema billing, outside.

Part of the Right to Roam team & friends celebrating afterwards. So proud of this lot.

Brilliant weeknight premiere of Our Land, a beautiful, compelling (& funny) film, + a passionate, lively, thought-provoking panel on @righttoroam.bsky.social ft @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Nadia Shaikh, dir Orban Wallace & landowners Francis Fulford & Hugh Lillingstone, chaired by Hannah MacInnes. 1/2

Our Land Trailer YouTube video by MetFilm Distribution

Trailer here: youtu.be/est-ISGu9D0?...

Screenings: www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...

Not showing at your local cinema? Ask them! They can get in touch with the distributors directly at: www.metfilmstudio.com/sales/contact

Sold out screening of Our Land at Curzon Soho this week. With a feisty Q&A to boot.

The distance between ourselves and Hugh Inge-Innes-Lillingston of the Thorpe Estate: a trifling acre or two.

The distance to Francis Fulford of Great Fulford: an ocean, a continent, an intergalactic space voyage.

That is the idea, yes.