The passage of the current Planning Bill must ensure that this is the last airport which has to endure such an absurdly protracted planning process.

CNN: Queen opens new $8.6B airport terminal

She would pick one up, planning to read that one special passage, and find herself unable to stop until the whole thing was redigested.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

They say that the federal Fish Passage Center, created by the Northwest Power Planning Council to monitor fish counts and water flows on the Columbia and Snake, has documented a direct correlation between higher flows and salmon survival.

CNN: River watch: Is Columbia tapped out?

Several amendments have already been tabled and accepted, including a restriction on walking at night, and Tory peers are reported to be planning a further series of "wrecking amendments" to delay the passage of the bill still further.

BBC: Countryside bill 'under threat'

Opponents of the reforms are planning to vet the bills carefully, and will probably hold up their passage until well into next year.

ECONOMIST: Thailand