Bath is once again trying to tick its boxes on clean air by shunting traffic out of the city up the A350.
That means, for example, through Westbury.
Could it be that there are local government elections next year?
Wiltshire Council Leader Richard Clewer and I met virtually and agreed that Bath’s plan is not acceptable. I am taking it up with the Department for Transport.

I do try not to be too partisan in this column but the detailed announcement in the Commons by the new PM on dealing with illegal migration contrasted with the Leader of the Opposition’s yah-boo response so achingly that even his own thinly populated backbench looked shame-faced.
Illegal migration is at least as big an issue in the rest of Europe as here and if there had been a quick and easy solution that didn’t turn the UK into a pariah state it would have been taken.
Sir Keir must know that sniping will only go so far and that sooner or later he’ll have to get some policies.
They will then be open to public scrutiny. Bring it on.
So far all I’ve seen is a plan to abolish the House of Lords, which may excite his activists but is a marginal issue for most people struggling with the global downdraught of covid, Putin’s war and the energy crisis.

As it happens, I too am far from happy with the upper House but, to be honest, it never comes up on the doorstep.
Let’s please modernise the Lords when we can but Sir Keir bigging it up as a top priority really is very odd.
On Thursday it fell to me to make a Statement in the House launching a Statutory Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Afghan deaths that were highlighted in the summer in which the Army was criticised and that has been the subject of litigation.
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave will investigate independently and report with recommendations.

The Overseas Operations Act last year was designed to reduce vexatious claims against soldiers while allowing the most serious, credible and non-repetitive allegations to continue to be investigated.
In short, fewer speculative legal claims and no witch hunts while ensuring the high reputation of UK forces is maintained.