On another topic, of less significance but important enough in its way. The National Trust AGM elects six places to its council at the end of this month. There is a group "Restore Trust" which is against all wokeness, pointing out links to slavery and suchlike on its properties. At least some of them are strongly opposed to LGBT+ issues, though the link to National Trust properties seems a bit tenuous. Anyway, these are the list of candidates they recommend you vote for:

Michael Goodhart
Stephen Green
Min Grimshaw
David Pearson
Andrew Powles
Guy Trehane

Alternatively, if you are like me, this is a handy list to ensure you do not vote for them by accident.

Steven Green's pitch for the role is especially enlightening:

am a long-standing member of the
National Trust and I seek election to the
Council to call the Trust back to its
founding principles, to treat its members,
donors, volunteers and tenants with
respect and to end its promotion of
fashionable ‘woke’ causes. Even as I was
filling in the Council election forms,
the Trust asked not just my sex but my
‘gender identity’ and my sexual orientation!
I believe the National Trust elite is obsessed
with LGBT issues. I believe a former
National Trust curator claimed historical
information about Trust properties
‘privileges heterosexual lives’ by ‘offering
information about marriages, inheritance
and the role of the family’. The Trust should
instead ‘provide more information on
same-sex desire and LGBTQ+ lives from
the past’.
The 2017 Felbrigg Hall affair, in which the
Trust claimed the donor, the late Robert
Ketton-Cremer, was homosexual, on no
evidence, shows where this madness leads.
I shall ensure that future donors feel safe
from the Trust poring over their past and
inventing salacious details of an imagined
private life.
I shall also want to know how much
members’ money has been spent in recent
years by the National Trust participating
in gay pride parades such as it did in
Birmingham in 2019. I shall stop divisive
marketing exercises and woke virtuesignalling.
I also seek your vote to end what I believe
to be the anti-democratic, corrupt system
whereby the Trust elite ‘recommends’
certain Council election candidates to
ensure nobody is elected who will ever
actually call them to account.
So if I am elected to the National Trust
Council it will be nothing less than
a miracle!