Back by unpopular demand, the great Heathrow expansion show. If only planes ran on hot air | Marina Hyde

Rachel Reeves flies back from Davos to lead a revival of the aviation perennial. Labour hated the idea before, but growth won't grow itself, will it?How can people say we can't build anything in this country any more? Listen: our parliament is literally falling down, has caught fire 45 times in the past decade alone, and is going to take tens of billions of investment just to get it in the same postcode as fit-for-purpose - a fact which has now been kicked down the road for actual decades by successive cohorts of MPs who can't handle being the ones to face reality, even though they are actually walking around in it every day. So don't you dare tell me we don't build things. We build the best damn metaphors in the world.Another thing we might be building, perhaps in our own inimitable style, is a third runway at Heathrow. This is the heavy hint dropped by chancellor Rachel Reeves at Davos this week, which - if realised - could open the gate to the Labour Upside Down. Half of the cabinet hate it, half of them love it. Imagine Tony Blair but in asphalt.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...