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Podcast: 1666 & All That
“Love this!” someone tweeted me when we recently did an episode on Victorian London. “Please do the Stuarts!” This sounded…
Could TfL management save London’s rail passengers from Thameslink?
Here we go again. Heidi Alexander, the former Lewisham MP who recently quit to take a new job as London’s…
Here’s everything we learned from this list of alternative names considered for London’s boroughs
The LCC Municipal blog – which publishes all sorts of fascinating stuff about the history of London government – has…
The moors are literally on fire – so why does London still look the other way?
Here are a few of the things that, at time of writing, the BBC News website believes to be more…
Weak city centres have too many shops, and five other things we learned from the latest Centre for Cities report
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers on…
Podcast: The fat of the land
This week, we’re going back to basics, and ignoring cities to talk about farms. Dr Sarah Taber is a North…
Greater Manchester just unveiled plans for its 1,000 mile “Beelines” cycling network, so here are some maps
There are times, you know, when I wished I lived in Manchester. It has a combination of characteristics – a…
Uber just got its licence to operate in London back. But TfL is the real winner here
Uber, the minicab firm for the smartphone age, has been given a reprieve. Following a two-day court battle, it’s been…
Eight thoughts on YouGov’s polling on what Britons think about London
Those click hungry cats over at YouGov have done it again – conducting a poll that looks suspiciously like it…
Podcast: The Great Northern Rail Crisis
You wouldn’t necessarily know it reading the news from London, but the north of England’s railway network is in a…