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Overseas pressure groups targeting civil society in the UK is something that urgently needs more scrutiny. The National Trust has frequently been campaigned against via a group whose directors and funders are thousands of miles away. theguardian.com/books/2025/apr…

That episode of Friends when Monica’s credit cards are stolen and the bills show that the thief has a better social life than her. Well my air pods were stolen recently. I keep checking them on findmy. Right now they’re out on Great Titchfield Street while I’m home reading.

Financial independence among civil society organisations is paramount when they come under pressure. Many good ones in the UK have found themselves unable to resist pressure cos of finance. Our sector should take care of its fundraisers & commercial teams. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

1200% increase in wildfires in some parts of the country this spring. Whole ecosystems ‘decimated’ by huge rise in UK wildfires theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

I’m finding everything about this plastic Lego ‘wildflower bouquet’ depressing.

Oh! Nigel Havers is also a Londoner who taps on people’s car windows and asks them to switch off their engines and gets told to fuck off. I no longer feel alone, and like a big pollution-anxiety gnu. theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/…

Yeah all communists love Nigel Havers.

I have just learned that today is Sauvignon Blanc Day. I can’t believe the National Trust doesn’t celebrate this in some way 🧐

The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building. theguardian.com/environment/20…

No matter how busy you are, you should always take 5 minutes to stop and watch a nest of great-tits leaving home. With the Mam frantically shouting instructions and everyone bumping into things. What a privilege and a joy.

A reminder that the sycamore tree has a future. Thank you to everyone who has been in touch and supported this project.

This. From Mark Brown

When the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in 2023 it felt inevitable that the Daily Telegraph would publish this headline. They did so the very next day. You can publish anything if you add ‘locals say.’

‘We have godlike technology but childlike attention spans… an age in which our astonishing advances should be incubating a rare form of prosperity but we seem to keep losing it all.’ ⁦Matthew Syed⁩ is brilliant on the Sycamore Gap tree felling. thetimes.com/article/650440…

You’ve got to hand it to Tupperware. So versatile. National Trust rangers do this year’s puffin weigh-in on the Farne Islands

I woke up in a hotel in Sussex and this was outside my window. It felt like home.

Uh oh. Big screen in the National Trust office is now streaming PuffinCam. You can watch all the live action on the Farne Islands from a desk in Swindon. How are we supposed to work with this going on? It’s like Oscars night on a loop, but with better outfits and manners.

“People were worried it would be sold to developers. It was so touching that local people came and donated, some just coins or a fiver. It meant so much to them.” How the British coast was kept accessible to all, by thousands of ordinary people. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

Yes the 49 saplings the National Trust grew from the Sycamore Gap tree will be planted soon. Here’s the map of sites, from Orkney to Cornwall ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Rory Stewart. Inc the Rob Burrows Centre for MND & a plot in memory of a 15 year old girl killed by her boyfriend.

New scoop in the Telegraph. About National Trust signs that were put in place and reported in the media five years ago. Some visitors appreciate the signs - others are free to ignore them archive.ph/OLV5u