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jonn elledge
Britain is on course to make 630,000 old people homeless, but at least we’re not building flats without parking
Back in the ‘90s, the government dealt with the collapse of the private pension system by encouraging the baby boomer…
17 things the proposed “Tulip” skyscraper that London mayor Sadiq Khan just scrapped definitely resembled
Sadiq Khan has scrapped plans to build a massive glass thing in the City of London, on the grounds it…
What’s the largest parliamentary constituency in the world?
Australia recently had an election, a sentence that, from my fairly limited understanding of Australian politics, is almost always true.…
Podcast: The country where I want to be
Finland, Finland, Finland, as Monty Python once sang: Finland has it all. Well, it has some things anyway, and more…
How many airports does London have?
How many airports does London have? This feels like it should be a question with a simple and straightforward answer,…
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has unveiled the region’s new “tube map”
Well, this is exciting. Here’s the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, promising that the true capital of England should…
Podcast: A Short history of council housing
127. A short history of council housing This week’s guest is John Boughton, teacher, historian and author of an excellent…
How housing inequality is screwing up the country
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers on…
Can the Advanced Manufacturing Park fix Sheffield – or other struggling cities?
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers on…
Podcast: After Grenfell and advanced Sheffield
In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in a west London tower block; 72 people…