Harry Mount

The National Trust must stop obsessing about colonialism

Bateman's, one of the properties mentioned in the National Trust's report (Getty images)
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When will the National Trust get it into its thick skull that it’s supposed to look after buildings and landscapes? It is not a political organisation. But now, yet again, the Trust has weighed in with its political blunderbuss, attacking its own properties for their connections with colonialism and slavery.

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Harry Mount
Harry Mount is editor of The Oldie and author of How England Made the English (Penguin).

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