A 🧵 on the awful High Court decision to effectively end the common right to wild camp on #Dartmoor, and a backward step for the #RightToRoam and access for #WildCamping that now puts power back in the hands of wealthy landowners inside a designated UK National Park… Wild camping (i.e. short stay, small group, carry everything there and back, leave no footprint) has historically been understood to permitted on #Dartmoor in designated areas without needing the land owner’s permission

https://twitter.com/moleymole01/status/1602201529745907712?s=21&t=3Wp_cbxZ7jqWd1-GiUw6yg

The school is welcome to change it’s name to a more vapid one, but the BBC are simply wrong to describe Sir Francis Drake as a ‘slave trader’ in the headline. Perhaps it’s a good time to review his rather more complex career and become better informed. [short thread]

https://twitter.com/BBCLondonNews/status/1612743990972907521

Drake was a seafarer and navigator. His early voyages under John Hawkins were indeed tainted by association with the initial rise of the slave trade, although at the time it was a sideline of ‘privateering’ [licensed pirate] rather than the later industrial scale human traffic.