Cheese scones. Defiantly. My kids are so sick of me.

This is true. The number of people deploying battle and fighter and warrior metaphors for cancer. They mean so well, but you don’t half feel appalled at the image of ‘sending’ your young kid in, alone. Makes it a bit lonelier for all, and we need some better language.

Oh come now, ‘Unlike’. I’m not resigning over a Daily Mail recipe scare. There’s nothing Marxist about dried fruit, so easy with that flamethrower.

Sconegate statistics post Daily Mail farce

National Trust scone sales are UP 😂

Celia Richardson 👏🏼

This is so lovely! A new green corridor for Tyneside and also the reopening of the utterly magnificent Dunston Staiths. It melts my daughter-of-Gateshead heart. ⁦Save the Staiths⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Amongst a stream of misinformation about the National Trust we had a delightful, peaceful visit to Cotehele NT where members like us were enjoying fabulous service, great gardens and properties and their well explained context/history. Celia Richardson Hilary McGrady

Charles Moore agrees with the Legatum Institute’s strange allegation that a charity CEO & Chair sharing advisory/admin staff is problematic. Sharing staff may not be common in offshore-funded thinktanks but in my (25 years+) experience, it’s very normal for UK charities.

Weirdly it saved my life and still does to this day

So. To the question at the heart of #wokesconegate . Restore Trust asked ‘Will the members now clamour for proper British butter in their scones?’. The answer seems to be no. (Reminder - the scones weren’t made with butter before the cooked-up scone scare).

Doesn't get much more iconic than this - a superb story of contemporary cultural heritage with a heroic team of #curators . I love it.

The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

I remember a time when charities simply didn’t need counter-disinformation expertise in their communications teams. It was a gentler time.

I spoke to alan rusbridger & Lionel Barber about why a counter-disinformation approach is now needed by people handling communications for our institutions. And growing public trust in the National Trust. They generously gave the recent scone scare a trigger warning. Prospect

Celia Richardson 'are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the National Trust?'

Someone just whatsapped me this and now I’m worried I seem to have been working for the US Military in the 1970’s.

Every time we visit Robin Hood’s Bay, which is at least once a year, I tell my family I’m renting this place to have my next breakdown in. It’s perfectly placed near a sweet shop, a second hand book shop, the beach and a pub. So, yes.

Behold the glory of a National Trust scone warm from the oven:

The last 5 things I shared from a news source other than this article were from the Telegraph, Evening Standard, Observer, BBC, and Tatler.

The Daily Telegraph has today published corrections to another inaccurate article about the National Trust. 18 days after it published the original article, and with far less prominence. Meanwhile it was reported onward in a number of other titles.