What we learned this week

It’s the Easter holidays round here, so fewer posts last week and none at all next week. I’m going to take a break for a few days. In the meantime, some miscellaneous links, some highlights from the blog in case you missed them, and a couple of cultural recommendations below.

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam is phasing out private planes and night flights as it seeks to be ‘quieter, cleaner and better’. These are the kind of ‘people first’ decisions UK airports, including my local Luton one, co...