Quite obviously you are wrong on that, otherwise the Sunday Times would not run an editorial as well as a full page spread promoting Silver-Boris airport.
In all seriousness, nobody reads it anymore. It's peripheral to this argument, and the level of journalism at the best of papers is sadly lacking intellectual rigour and knowledge of the subject matter.
This coalition government is coming off the rails, I agree with Silverstrata that people are disengaged with politics. Able people get more money in real jobs and ambitious pond life gets into politics. Once in power, they realise that they are in well over their heads and worse, even the most able are constrained by the EU, international law and human rights legislation. There's nothing wrong with any of that in isolation but it does mean taken together, our democracy and society struggles to get anything done. Too many vested interests alas. I have no idea how to fix it either, that's the scary bit.