Can the National Trust dumb down any further? Its latest crazed venture, the Colonial Countryside project, is ‘a child-led history and writing project’, working with 100 primary school pupils, 16 historians and ten commissioned writers. The aim is to ensure that ‘robustly researched stories of empire are communicated’.
So here comes another highly politicised scheme – in the light of its disastrous LGBTQ campaign, forcing volunteers to wear rainbow badges, and outing the owner of one of its great houses, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, who bequeathed Felbrigg Hall to the Trust.
As Charles Moore writes in his Telegraph column this week, the experts on the colonial project are of a predictable, Conservative-bashing nature:
‘Raj Pal, who says he is working on Churchill and Chartwell (a National Trust property) …(tweets) that Denis and Margaret Thatcher loved one another because ‘two of the vilest human beings had so much in common’.
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