Stonehenge Headline Mike Pitts of British Archaeology magazine in questioning mood. Probably the only person I would trust to say anything sensible about Stonehenge, marvelling at the latest story of the movement of the Altar Stone from Scotland. Yes it could be a glacial movement but sort of via Doggerland. Doggerland for those who do not know where it is now, it is that patch of land that once joined us to Europe in the North Sea.
"He finds the glacier scenario more “plausible”: “these findings could imply that the people of Doggerland attached cultural significance to the Altar Stone … [and so saved] it from being submerged by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age”.
A drowned landscape, which is rather exciting. How do we know? Well fisherman trawling the bottom of the sea there have fished up prehistoric axes and arrowheads, showing that once long ago the land was settled. Ten thousand years ago we were part of Northern Europe (my DNA tells me that by the way) and then seven thousand years ago approximately a glacier pushed through and it is what it is today. Vincent Gaffney and co-workers explored this lost land and wrote a very complicated book on the subject, I did not understand it! But then a Wiki will explain this lost land and of course the scientists who study it with great interest.
You will note that Pitts is just a tad offensive about newspaper headlines - aren't we all of course. The journalists leap on any piece of news, tear it apart without understanding, headline a few facts again without understanding them, and then off we go on their ignorance .
Well there is, in the Private Eye magazine a funny set of Breaking News by Mail Online, a couple for your delectation.....
Video Exclusive: Woman, 24, in cropped t-shirt and skintight shorts leaves VERY little to the imagination as she tragically plunges to her death.
Friends fear Meghan not to be trusted with kitchen knife
Starmer denies mainlining heroin with Rachel Reeves in urine-infested Downing Street.
This is a favourite.
Dan Hodges. Day after day, people are dropping dead from old age. Why is Starmer doing nothing about it?
Well when England finally kicks the bucket (it won't) we shall be glad of Ian Hislop and his team of erudite journalists ploughing through the latest scandal, and missing being sued by an inch. Speak up, speak out ;)
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I had never read Private Eye until I picked up my son-in-law's copy earlier this year. I was impressed not only by how cuttingly funny it is, but also by the level of real investigative journalism.
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