The Big Issue: If Heathrow were a factory it would have closed years ago | the big issue

By all the usual environmental measures, the airport is a dangerous menace to those who live around it

Will Hutton's otherwise excellent article was let down by the confusing argument on Heathrow. Clearly,

London and the south-east are home to 469 global companies not because of Heathrow, since Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt also have well-connected airports. Companies base themselves in the UK because of other matters: English, access to the EU, a benign tax policy etc ("Vital Heathrow expansion must not be held up by craven politics", Comment).

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