Dartmoor was the only National Park in England where wild camping was legal – until today, when a banker called #AlexanderDarwall, who bought an estate 10 yrs ago with his hedge fund profits, overturned that right with help from barrister Tim Morshead KC... This is what some of us do. We are born in industrial time, living in the freedoms that technology brings & with the painful knowledge of what has also been lost. Yet our unshakeable bond with the earth can still be felt, taking us out of linear time...

Another massive leak #FinCENFiles by @ICIJorg & @buzzfeednews: Big banks taking dirty money
Nothing is new here
Not that it isn’t, in journo terms, a good story, well told.
It is.
I know because I wrote my version of it 11 yrs ago at @Global_Witness
Here’s some perspective 1/21 Here was my account of how banks cause poverty: bit.ly/UndueDiligence
And so many others:
@nickshaxson’s version, Treasure Islands (rather more widely read than my efforts) in 2011
Ditto @OliverBullough’s Moneyland in 2018
@submergingmkt’s, The Blood Bankers, in 2003
2/21