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• ‟ For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate. They assert ownership not only of the land but also of the social relationships surrounding it.

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• ‟ Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels at the autumn equinox, or that every patch of nettles was once reamed by caterpillars.

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• ‟ Those who deny their own feelings tend to deny other people's.

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• ‟ David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Some have been imprisoned for using property abandoned by its owners.

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• ‟ Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass should join forces with them, protecting their rights while we defend our own.

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• ‟ I could see the point of Brexit if it meant returning power to the people.

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• ‟ I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look like?

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