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jonn elledge
Podcast: Fallen Empires
I’ve escaped London for a pre-Christmas minibreak, to visit the beautiful Austrian capital of Vienna. For some reason, visiting a…
Nearly 30 years on, will Glasgow Airport finally get its rail link?
Glasgow Airport serves over 8m passengers and 100,000 planes every year. It’s the eighth busiest airport in the UK, and…
Podcast: The One With The Special Mystery Guest
I’m very excited about this week’s guest – so excited that one point this was going to be the Christmas…
What’s the matter with Sheffield?
I’ve been sniffing around this database looking for stories to tell for nearly two and a half years now. And…
67 thoughts on a hilariously misleading tweet sent by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England
1. Oh, I see the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England have sent a smug tweet congratulating Sadiq Khan…
TfL says London’s roads are being subsidised by public transport users. Is it true?
Are public transport users subsidising London’s roads? The idea sounds faintly ridiculous, because it goes against all received wisdom. Everyone…
Could Paisley really be the next UK City of Culture?
I wore a paisley shirt when I went to Paisley. It hadn’t been deliberate – at least, it hadn’t been…
What is to be done? Some modest suggestions on solving the NIMBY problem
The thing about NIMBYism, right, is that there’s no downside to it. If you already own a decent size house,…
Podcast: Le soixante-sixième
We can be a bit insular around these parts at times: banging on endlessly about transport in London or mayoral…
Budget 2017: Philip Hammond just showed that rejecting metro mayors was a terrible, terrible error
There were some in England’s cities, one sensed, who breathed a sigh of relief when George Osborne left the Treasury.…