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jonn elledge
Which UK cities will suffer most from the end of Freedom of Movement?
Theresa May’s government has been unclear and uncertain about almost everything to do with life after Brexit: whether Britain would…
Updated: When does London’s Crossrail open?
The article below, originally published on 12 March 2018, outlined the surprisingly complex answer to the question posed in the…
Podcast: Mayoral health check
We’re just over halfway through Sadiq Khan’s term as mayor of London – and just under half-way through most of…
“It’s promoted Essex by defining it by its very worst qualities”: on growing up in TOWIE country
When I was a teenager, depending on our mood and who we were with and how old the most obviously under-aged…
Here’s why Britain should move its capital
Three months ago, two different bits of Britain’s much-loved privatised rail network fell over. Passengers on Thameslink and Northern rail were…
Everybody hates the Midlands, and other lessons from YouGov’s latest spurious polling
Just because you’re paranoid, the old joke runs, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. By the same token:…
Here are eight thoughts on TfL’s proposed cuts to London’s bus network
In 2016, the urbanism blog City Observatory had a modest proposal for how American cities could sort out their transport…
Podcast: Letter from the Queen
Human beings generally have ten fingers. In what is probably not a coincidence, the world’s most popular number system counts…
The Museum of London now has a fatcam video feed so you can watch its fatberg live, for some reason
Remember the “monster fatberg” – the 250m long, 130 tonne congealed lump of fat, oil, wet wipes and sanitary products…
5 more ways they should change London’s tube & rail map to make it less annoying to me personally
Right, where were we. The zonal map is awful I mean, look at it: Who on earth looked at London’s…