This Heathrow report got Cameron off the hook. But it won’t be the last word | Simon Jenkins

Howard Davies thinks a trickle-down effect from the airport will benefit the whole country. This clearly cannot be

Government inquiries are Britain’s bullfights. They are expensive, ritualised, interminable and the cause of lavish corporate expenditure. They all have the same ending: a man in a suit pirouetting over a pile of bleeding meat.

The bleeding meat of Wednesday’s Davies report is London’s environment, apparently in need of yet more air, noise and traffic pollution at levels that shoul...