There's something refreshing about the credit crunch: the high-pitched sound of the City of London starting to panic. After years of making oodles of money the fat cats are worrying about how they'll make the repayments on that Maserati they impulse bought last summer.

Luckily for the huddled masses of London's famous Docklands there is a panacea: expanding Heathrow airport. Despite London business group London First (like Earth First! but with hierarchy and massive environmental degredation) calling for a "better, not a bigger Heathrow", a coalition of 100 businesses has demanded the airport expand to serve their bloodthirsty cries for more economic growth.

Interestingly those calling for expansion include Severn Trent Water (former workplace of current BAA wanker Colin Matthews) and Hilton Hotels (who make a living by giving people a place to stay when they jet off on business). So they're hardly unbiased. Perhaps if these corporations focused less on supporting airport expansion, and more on running their own businesses we wouldn't be staring head first into a recession, hmm?

Fresh from appointing BA Chairman Willie Walsh as an advisor on making London a global city (whatever that's supposed to mean), Mayor of London and tossle-haired tosser Boris Johnson has given his backing for the expansion of City Airport.

City Airport sits in the heart of Docklands, and flies very important people in suits about to meetings that probably could have taken place by telephone. It already blights some of the most deprived areas of East London, with aircraft noise, pollution and chaffeur-driven traffic. The latest plans will add 50% more flights - mostly to destinations reachable by train in roughly the same time.

The Mayor did add a small caveat though, saying that it would be hard to justify any further expansion. I'm sure that's a great relief for the sleep deprived residents. If Boris thinks City is so great for the local area, perhaps he'd like to dump it in the heart of Kensington. Thought not...