Don't dismiss nimbyism – it's the default mode of politics | Simon Jenkins

Politicians are quick to sneer at complaints about HS2, but the tale of Boris's airport shows how hypocritical they are

Who is most favoured of them all? In the age of the lobbyist, which is the most expensively protected, fussed over and cosseted interest in Britain? The answer is any Londoner within hearing distance of a future jet plane. If a railway, a motorway, a wind turbine or an executive housing estate should pop up in your backyard, the government will tell you to get stuffed as a...