Beware: the first of the “never agains” has just happened at Stonehenge.

Did you see The Parade of the Planets this week? Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, all visible above the ancient observatory of Stonehenge? Almost certainly, if you did, it was from a car driving on the A303. Thousands may have experienced it that way.

They were very lucky because consider this: the alignment won’t happen again until 2040, and that matters because long before then English Heritage, Historic England, and the National Trust expect to achieve their ambition to hide such spectacles from 99.9% of the Public forever and ever.

It was one of the first “never again” happenings at Stonehenge and there will soon be others because the timescale is now shortening alarmingly. Are you proud of Britain’s behaviour?

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