As this column went to press, on December 18th, a band of fe-male druids were preparing to bare their breasts at Stone-henge. This was not a practice run for the winter solstice, when the setting sun will glow orange through the site's biggest tri-lithon, a vast staple-shaped assemblage. Rather the women, who belong to a group called the Loyal Arthurian Warband, are protesting against the exhibition of a prehistoric human skeleton at its new visitor centre. This was due to open, 85 years after it was first promised, the same day.
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