Stonehenge: lest anyone ever forget.

By all that’s right and rational the care of Stonehenge should have been kept in the vice-like grip of archaeologists free of Government control. But no, 200 weeks ago it was hijacked by this bloke, looking for votes…..

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He and his team wanted a tunnel and they wanted it cheap, which means short. But that gave them a PR problem because “short” also meant “horribly damaging to the WHS” since it meant hiding the iconic free view of the stones from millions of travelers and digging a huge access road within the protected landscape.

However, that wasn’t insurmountable. All they needed was a sufficient number of archaeologists to say such damage is acceptable. Which, as is clear to a dead dog in a cellar and UNESCO, it ain’t.

So where is he now? Nowhere. The electioneering stunts that men do sometimes live after them for reasons no one remembers. So just so you know, it’s a political tunnel. In Tom Holland’s words, Stonehenge has been “offered up as a sacrifice on the altar of electioneering“ – electioneering by the man who accidentally brought us Brexit and much that has followed.