The Curmudgeon

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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Loose Henge

Mere experts and others are still making a fuss about the proposed building of a road tunnel through the vicinity of Stonehenge. The pre-VE Day monument has a certain religious significance for those claiming allegiance to the authentic church of England rather than its unpleasant Middle Eastern supplanter; but modern-day orthodoxy demands subservience to the pushers and panderers of the automobile, which is why traffic congestion can on no account be eased by anything so heretical as a public transport system. Archaeologists and environmentalists have also expressed concern from their own limited perspectives, and Highways England, the swashbucklingly-monickered government company in charge of the enterprise, has convened a six-month rah-and-blah to show them all where they've got it wrong. To its credit, Highways England makes no pretence of running a consultation: contractors with appropriate ministerial connections are already being sought, and if the brilliant Chris Graybeing is still in post by April next year he will have the opportunity to decide on the plans, having first applied his blue crayon to any sensible parts that have survived the process.

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