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jonn elledge
This colour-coded map shows the speed limit of every road in London. Cool
As ever, in times of darkness, I find myself turning for comfort to cartography. Specifically, on this occasion, it’s a…
The Tories want to change how we elect England’s mayors. Does it matter?
On a recent edition of Skylines, the entirely excellent CityMetric podcast, the New Statesman’s Stephen Bush made a prediction: that…
What big challenges is West Midlands mayor Andy Street facing?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers…
Podcast: Mistakes were made
Well. We got that a bit wrong, didn’t we? Last week on this podcast, Stephen Bush, Patrick Maguire and myself…
“Different cities are different”: so how does the housing crisis look in different city regions?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers…
All aboard: What we learned from a trip on CityMapper’s popup smartbus CMX1
The idea that you can wait ages for a bus, and then two will come along at once, is a…
Here’s Andy Burnham’s genuine Manchester-themed playlist
On 15 March, Labour’s Andy Burnham launched his manifesto to be the first mayor of Greater Manchester. And in case…
I was wrong: turns out, Andy Burnham is genuinely popular
I’ve not always been kind to Andy Burnham. During his 2015 bid for the Labour leadership, I laid into him in…
Liveblog: What is happening with England's metro mayoral elections?
On Thursday, residents in six English regions are going to the polls to elect their first metro mayors. Roughly analogous…
Podcast: Level Five
The big day is here at last: as I write, residents of six English city regions are finally going to…