Boris didn’t need to commission Doug Oakervee to analyse the whole thing, the House of Commons has just produced a perfectly good overall survey of the evidence here [PDF]:

In 1958, Mr Richard Harris MP (Con, Heston and Isleworth), noting that aircraft noise was “now becoming intolerable for about a million people in South-West [...]

Via Ross Lydall’s blog (worth subscribing to the RSS, I reckon, otherwise you miss things like this and the highly interesting shenanigans at the LFEPA):

But it came to pass that the national Politics Show (which is followed by the London opt-out) when it broadcasts at Sunday lunchtime was offered an exclusive [...]

The latest issue of the London Transport Museum Friends’ Newsletter has just arrived via my non-striking postie and it features a reader’s letter concerning Boris’s fantasy Routemaster which deserves reproducing in full:

“A New Bus For London

It is hard to understand Boris Johnson’s aversion to articulated buses, and his enthusiasm for open [...]

The lack of razzmatazz continues this morning, with only the following to be found:

New Statesman article here

Labour’s Murad Qureshi quoted here

Bankers bashing ‘fickle’ Boris here and here and bashing the airport here

‘Bird strike hazard’ here

Boris’s decision to set up an estuary working [...]

What’s odd about the airport report is that Helen found it on the newly set up website of an entity calling itself ‘The Thames Estuary Research and Development Company’?  Well, it’s a website written by a bloke called Amit Chhatralia, who, assuming this is his website, seems inoffensive enough.  Could use a dictionary though, [...]