We are told that Science and Industry Museum Director, Sally Macdonald, says:

“We have just completed a £5million new Special Exhibitions Gallery which over 20,000 visitors have already enjoyed, and we are investing £11.3million in our iconic Power Hall, due to reopen in 2023. We are also undertaking repairs valued at over £3m to the 1830 Station and 1830 warehouse”.

Some questions for her:

• Is she proud to have subsidised to the extent of £250 per head each visitor, so far, to the Special Exhibitions Gallery ?
• Why does everything, nowadays, have to be either ‘iconic’ or ‘unique’ or is this just evidence of poverty of language?
• Why can’t she say what the repairs to the station and warehouse cost rather than telling us the figure at which she values those? As history, in this sector, has demonstrated, often there is a significant difference between cost and value.