All articles by jonn elledge
jonn elledge
Podcast: Lies, damned lies and the CPRE
99. Lies, damned lies and the CPRE Bit angry this week, lads. The CPRE – officially the Campaign for the…
The CPRE is wrong: there are not 460,000 homes planned for England’s green belts
Mamma mia, here we go again. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, a body whose raison d’etre is…
7 ways they should change London’s tube & rail map to make it less annoying to me personally
You see, something people get wrong about me is that they think I’m a train nerd. I’m not, not really…
Podcast: A huge, developing problem
This week, we’re talking about one of the biggest problems facing the developing world today. Untold millions are moving from…
Why hasn’t Chris Grayling resigned?
Why hasn’t Chris Grayling resigned? Or perhaps I should say – why hasn’t Chris Grayling resigned yet? I mean, he…
Podcast: The other forty-nine
Last year, an American writer called Sarah Manavis joined me on the podcast to talk about her home state of…
Who will be the Conservative candidate for mayor of London in 2020?
Six days ago, Conservative Home revealed the 10 candidates longlisted to be the Tory candidate for the 2020 mayoral election.…
Podcast: Second city blues
This is one of those guest episodes we sometimes do, where we repeat a CityMetric-ish episode of another podcast. This…
Towards a taxonomy of metro station names
In Synecdoche New York, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Caden Cotard, a director attempting to create a genuinely truthful piece of…
This map shows that London is the epicentre of the house price crisis
Sometimes a map makes a point so simply, so eloquently, that any words one writes to accompany it feel almost…