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nigelswift

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Re: Please

Nov 28, 2005, 17:46

Life's too short for squabbling - you realize that as the years left in the hourglass grow increasingly few...

How true.
And yet, in this matter, looked at a different way, not true.
Silbury will last rather longer than the current generation of squabblers and posterity will focus purely on what was done.

I don't think it's controversial to say that whatever's done it will be on the basis of huge gaps in the knowledge of what's being dealt with and what might happen both by design and by accident. Last Saturday, for the first time in five years an expert opinion on what should be done was given, but it was freely acknowledged it was on the basis of those huge gaps in knowledge.

If quarrelling means pushing for the expert opinion to be non-verbal and for as many of the knowledge gaps as possible to be filled and for the public to be fully informed in a way they haven't previously been, then count me a quarreller. Shame there were no quarrellers in Atkinson's time. Use a bigger hourglass Littlestone!

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