"I wanna a long bore tunnel and a visitor centre a long way away from the site (somewhere like Dundee springs to mind)"

Beautifully succinct and reasonable. I suppose it could be further refined to "Don't hurt Stonehenge".

Yet the government, eagerly supported by EH (which exists to "ensure the preservation of our historic surroundings" is about to hurt it really badly.

How? They got lucky. Long tunnel rhymes with short tunnel and both can be shortened to "tunnel" in press releases.

The "tunnel" (short, not long) will involve bulldozing new junctions, slip roads, and a brand new four-lane dual carriageway across ONE THIRD of the WHS causing massive destruction to the protected landscape. The "tunnel" (long, not short) or simply doing nothing ... wouldn't.

Kate Fielden, an archaeologist on the Stonehenge Alliance who knows a lot and clearly has no axe to grind, sums it up -

"Stonehenge is not just the stone circle: it's a unique complex of interrelated monuments extending over a landscape of some 5,000 acres. The Highways Agency's glossy before-and-after photos are highly misleading: they show nothing of the destruction on either side of the short tunnel."

Meanwhile, EH continues to push for the short tunnel - to the extent of spending taxpayers' money running what they say is a news item on the subject but which is simply a propoganda exercise trying to push people to their way of thinking. "Support for the 2.1 km tunnel at Stonehenge continues". Does that sound like a news item to you? And note the sublime use of words. Short bored tunnel is now "2.1km long bored tunnel" !!