Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Restore trust - Caught on Camera

How the National Trust fought back against the culture warriors

Attempts to exert influence on the conservation charity have been vigorously resisted but it remains vigilant

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2024

The Tories have left the stage but their toxic cultural legacy is doing an encore

From Oasis ticket price hikes to trying to sell off Birmingham’s art, the Conservatives’ market-first agenda still blights Britain

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2024

The National Trust must resist the group that wants to turn grievances into policy

Burning with unquenchable resentment, Restore Trust is making another attempt at taking over the institution

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The right is as stale as its ‘woke National Trust scones’ gambit

The heritage body’s alleged descent into butter-free wokeness is a storm in an afternoon teacup whipped up by its cultural foes

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

If the National Trust can be captured by a fake grassroots group, what public institution is safe?

Restore Trust’s insidious campaign to get its preferred candidates on to the body’s board could set a dangerous precedent

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

Labour’s meat tax is just another Tory lie that we’ve all been forced to swallow

The Conservatives’ fake story about a nonexistent Keir Starmer policy is typical of the party’s desperate attempt to win votes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

National Trust defends right to campaign on nature amid ‘pressure’ from lobby group

Restore Trust wants its members elected to the charity’s governing council to rid it of its ‘woke agenda’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Wake up, people! GB News is after our National Trust scones

The right-leaning channel is throwing its weight behind a Tufton Street-backed campaign to undermine the heritage charity

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Vote no to the thinktank pod people trying to body-snatch the National Trust

The conservation organisation once again faces being infiltrated by climate crisis deniers and oil-funded groups

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023

National Trust reports record £179m annual spend on conservation

Membership steady and income from legacies tops £70m in financial year

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2023

Instead of tilting at turbines we should see them for what they are: beautiful

Britons should learn to love onshore renewables as part of a long tradition of robust, practical, rural structures

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2023

The RSPB took on ministers and fell to earth. How it happened is a warning to us all

This is not just a story of a wildlife charity being bullied – it’s about the ugly truth of power dynamics in today’s Britain, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2023

Right-leaning group fails to wrest control of National Trust

Restore Trust blamed new voting system for defeat of all its candidates at annual general meeting in Bath

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022

National Trust AGM set for fresh battle over culture wars

‘Anti-woke insurgents’ Restore Trust promoting candidates for governing body in bid to influence charity’s policies

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2022

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022

Rise up, twitchers! The thinktanks are coming

Time is running out to protect the RSPB and National Trust from climate crisis-denying, neoliberal lobbyists and their nature-hating Tory cronies

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2022

For the record

This week’s corrections

Daily Mirror · Sep 16, 2022

National Trust shortage of volunteers sees iconic period homes close their doors

National Trust shortage of volunteers could see iconic period homes close including filming locations for the likes of Brideshead Revisited and Jane Eyre

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022

Why not honour the Queen by opening up the gardens at Buckingham Palace?

A different British architect could design each area, solving potential arguments and creating a living monument

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022

Government appoints anti-‘woke’ activist as V&A trustee

Rightwing commentator Zewditu Gebreyohanes is director of a group waging ‘politicised’ campaign against the National Trust

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

National Trust members: get ready to choke on your carrot cake

The creeping pushback against the ‘woke’ won’t stop until we’re neck-deep in deregulated dystopia

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2022

Tory critical of National Trust to chair parliamentary group dedicated to charity

Andrew Murrison has boasted of leading charge against NT and accused it of ‘tarnishing reputation of Winston Churchill’

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Global Warming Policy Foundation

18 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.