A solar farm in West Sussex. The proposed installation in Northamptonshire would have saved an estimated 11,000 tonnes of carbon a year.A solar farm in West Sussex. The proposed installation in Northamptonshire would have saved an estimated 11,000 tonnes of carbon a year..
To use a reference its readers would get, it is the Private Frazer of British newspapers – “We’re doomed – doomed!” as the Hebridean soldier-undertaker from. “The fungi is boycotted,” it said. It isn’t – just the mushrooms grown with peat, to protect plover and dragonfly habitats. This tells you all you need to know about theagainst the Trust run by opaquely funded rightwing thinktanks and their allies in the press – in particular, how much they are rooted in reality.
So it was good to hear the historian and national treasure Mary Beard, while giving the Trust’s Octavia Hill lecture last week, take apart some of the moaners’ pet peeves. A derided 2020 report into links between National Trust properties and colonisation and slavery was, she said, “stating the bleeding obvious”.
Conceivably, it might, but probably not. To judge by the way that towers like this are almost always built, it would lack the grace and joy to pull off a giant architectural joke, which would leave it looking like nothing but a cynical ploy.