Nice article written by
Curtis et al with the spin centred on their airfield businesses - this would be the same gent that has agreed to save the St George's Chapel!
The MoD is not regulated by DfT and the SofS for Defence has accepted the risk of running Military Aerodromes as much as the SofS for Transport has accepted the risk for running Civil Aerodromes. To outlaw civil aircraft landing at mil aerodromes is as daft as outlawing mil aircraft landing at civil aerodromes; and if you want to pick holes in airfield design standards there are as many differences in the CAA's CAP168 as there are in the MAA's Manual of Aerodrome Design & Safeguarding (MADS) where the military are MORE restrictive as there is in the civilian document.
Sour grapes from airfields too far away from London...
LJ