Well, not quite, but she basically project managed the whole dig, including securing the lottery funding.  So proud!

Ann Hall, LLHG Project Manager, said she was particularly pleased that so many locals had given their time and energy to help remove over two metres of soil and rubble to help solve the mystery of how the fort and ditch had been constructed, with 78 volunteers and 160 schoolchildren helping out. The history group had secured £49,000 of Heritage Lottery cash to fund the excavation. She said: “We all feel very privileged to have been given permission to investigate below the surface of this scheduled ancient monument - even for just a short time. ‘Amazing’ “The site is on private land with no public access and now we have restored the land, there is nothing left on site to show all the amazing features which have been discovered. “The skeleton has been carefully removed along with all the finds. “These will be analysed by specialists to give us much more information about what happened in the past.”

I don’t know why the more rational members of the American political classes seem to be finding this so hard at the moment.  All you need is a simple “I’m afraid, my good man, that you am a twart, and furthermore, STFU”.

This from the Ukip peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch. “To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much is paid annually to members of bigamous Islamic families in housing benefit and other social security payments.” The answer: “The social security system only recognises relationships that have been lawfully contracted in the UK or in other jurisdictions.” Civilisation survives to fight another day.

(via Hugh Muir, The Guardian)

Theory 1:  It’s a bluff.  He’s going to wait until everyone else gets scared and implements their own paywalls, then do an about-face.  This is the view of paidcontent.org’s Rafat Ali.

Theory 2: It’s not a bluff, but he’s going wait for a new Tory government to come in and use this play as an argument to take down the BBC.  As he said to the Guardian:

“Frankly, the big free competition will be coming from the BBC.”