Heritage Matters
The House of Commons held a debate on heritage last week, following the publication of the first Select Committee report on the subject for a dozen years. Every heritage organisation is united in condemnation of what they describe as the Government’s complacency. English Heritage has had its budget cut, and is still without a new chairman. (The two leading candidates were both Tories, so they were rejected, natch.) The Government’s (well Tessa Jowell’s) neglect is pretty disgraceful when you consider the huge importance of asector which stretches from Stonehenge to Upper Heyford air base, with quite a lot in between.