Beware 17th July at Stonehenge!

Why? Because by then Grant Shapps must announce his decision. What will it be? Will a country that now owes more than the value of its own economy invest an open-ended sum on a route that was designed to catch votes by the last Prime Minister but one and which has now lost much of its traffic and raison d’etre and has scandalised professionals and laypeople worldwide?

Or will it decide there are more pressing needs, such as … just about everything? Who knows? What we do know is that if it’s “postponed” (as cancellations are always presented) they’ll (a.) bury the announcement under other news and (b.) blame anything except themselves and their yes-bodies.

Or maybe they will blame their yes-bodies, just like they heaped criticism on care homes. Might they turn round and say English Heritage et al misled them about both the heritage damage and the insurmountable technical problems posed by soft chalk and the water table – despite knowing about both for years?