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Friday 28 March
Terminal 5: actually, we love it
Written by rich

The "shambolic" opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 is actually everything the British love: an opportunity to moan about how something that's meant to be really good is actually really crap, without much thought to the long-term benefits that will accrue to them.

Two observations:

1 — Britain doesn't do infrastructure very well (cf. Wembley, the London Olympics so far, the Millennium Dome etc.), despite having invented the Industrial Age.

2 — Britons are never happier when they have a chance to moan (cf. British post-war history).

Tags — General Interest