The latest round of hearings of the Navitus Bay Wind Farm enquiry had quite large public audiences given the technical nature of its acronym-filled business.

Yet there were occasional moments.

Opposition group Challenge Navitus accused the developers of “breaking the laws of physics” with some of their noise calculation. Strangely that accusation itself denied reality.

Or Bill Hoodless of PCBA protesting that he couldn’t see any turbine blades in a visualisation. Exactly. They are that far away, Bill.

Or Bournemouth’s Councillor Mike Greene, taking on the role of a council officer to then provide us all with five minutes of this own personal wisdom.

But perhaps the most bizarre moment I witnessed was a QC hired by Bournemouth Council to quiz the developer over problems with tourism surveys that Navitus had commissioned with TSE Research.

Sat silently next to the QC was Mark Smith, Bournemouth Council’s tourism chief and long-time critic of the Navitus Bay Wind Farm.

What is strange here is that the now silent Mark Smith is a director of that same TSE.

Dr Martin Rodger, Bloxworth Road, Poole