National Trust
The Spectator’s Notes
Like almost everyone else writing on the subject, I have no idea whether Boris Johnson told colleagues in October that…
The distortion of British history
The British Museum has announced the appointment of a curator to study the history of its own collections. On the…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Tencent Wykeham’ has a ring to it. It captures how easily British universities can be bought. It is the new…
The Spectator’s Notes
Some Leavers are perturbed that Lord Frost was suddenly stood down as the next National Security Adviser. This anxiety may…
Letters
Canterbury tales Sir: Having opened my copy of The Spectator upon arrival in the post, I read your article ‘Welby’s…
Who volunteers to be lectured by children?
The screenwriter Russell T. Davies has said that only gay actors should be cast in gay parts, believing this leads…
Why is the National Trust so determined to lecture its members?
Can the National Trust dumb down any further? Its latest crazed venture, the Colonial Countryside project, is ‘a child-led history…
Letters
Ask the English Sir: Toby Young rightly criticises the juvenile posturing of the devolved governments of the Union over Covid-19…
The Spectator’s Notes
You have to give it to Donald Trump: he never stops trying. In a letter dated 25 September, he wrote…
The Spectator’s Notes
In this column (26 September), I pointed out that the National Trust’s new ‘Gazetteer’ of its 93 properties linked with…
Letters
Misplaced Trust Sir: Charles Moore is as ever bang on target (The Spectator’s Notes, 26 September). National Trust members have…
Real life
The pile of fly-tipping was dumped in the night as usual, right against the five bar gate. I arrived to…
The Spectator’s Notes
The National Trust has brought out its ‘Interim Report’, with the clumsy title ‘Addressing our histories of colonialism and historic…
Real life
Always the National Trust sticker. It feels like every time a car parks across the gateway to my horses’ field…
Why is the National Trust trying to downplay its established purpose?
Hilary McGrady, the new director-general of the National Trust, sent me (and no doubt other journalists) a nice email hoping…
The Spectator’s Notes
You can see why Theresa May said in Florence that the British wished the European Union well in its plans…
Sea sound
It’s often not visual images that stimulate memory but a smell, a taste, the sound of pebbles crashing on to…
Museum relic
Do we really need museums in the age of Wikipedia and Google? William Cook thinks we do but his children don’t agree
Signs of contempt
Why do we ruin beautiful places to make them appeal to those who’ll never visit anyway?
Don’t blame the blob
Owen Paterson shouldn’t hold green activists responsible for his sacking. The culprit was David Cameron
Letters
An independent policy Sir: James Curran’s review of my book Dangerous Allies (‘Radical nationalist’, 17 May) showed a significant and…
