The Great Outdoors

Why our obsession with litter distracts us from the real issues

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BY THE TIME you read this, Alexander Darwall, an investment manager with a fetish for restricting access rights, will have taken the Dartmoor National Park Authority to court in an attempt to revoke wild camping rights enshrined in the Dartmoor Commons Act. Blaming ‘anti-social behaviour’ and littering, Darwall claims wild campers are damaging his 4000-acre Dartmoor Estate. We would do well to be suspicious.

Complaints about the ignorant masses blighting the countryside with

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