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This one chart suggests that Britain doesn’t have enough houses to go round
For some time now, regular readers may have noticed, I’ve been publishing articles that could be parsed, basically, as, “Yes,…
An unspecified number of thoughts on Britain’s local election results
You’d think I would know, by now, not to stay up until the early hours watching local election results. Nothing…
Podcast: Estuary English
As I write, it’s local elections day here in England. There are elections in large chunks of the country, but…
An implausibly long and detailed borough-by-borough guide to the 2018 London elections
Update, 2 May: This piece inspired an unusually high number of responses. Some people pointed out errors, others questioned how easily…
Podcast: Industrial revolution, industrial decline
This is one of our occasional guest episodes in which I hand the reins to somebody else/shamelessly re-release someone else’s…
Here’s everything we learned spending an afternoon on route 11, Birmingham’s Outer Circle bus
For just over three years, Birmingham’s number 11 bus lost its coveted title as Europe’s longest urban bus route –…
These charts show quite how few British cities have seen wages rise over the last decade
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the…
Jeremy Corbyn just proposed what looks suspiciously like a truly radical set of social housing policies
I have a problem – one which falls under the heading of “good problems to have”, but it’s a problem,…
Podcast: The unitary state
I sometimes worry I’ve got into a bit of a rut with this podcast, chatting away about housing and public…
Here are six more cool maps of London’s transport network
Maps. Maps are great, aren’t they? We love maps. Maps. Sorry, lost my train of thought for a moment there.…