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jonn elledge
Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan both seem slippery – so why do we rate one more than the other?
Andy Burnham is a man whose policies and opinions seem to owe more to political expediency than they do to…
Podcast: The Mersey Beat
It’s another metro mayor special: this time, we’re off to Liverpool. Officially, of course, it’s the Liverpool City Region. Unofficially,…
This map shows the price of a square foot of housing in every postcode in London
You know, I sometimes worry that my mental map of London’s property prices might be a bit simplistic. Okay, I…
Podcast: Keep calm and carry on
Here we go again. Not for the first time in its history, London has been the victim of a terrorist…
England dominates the UK – far more, and more literally, than we sometimes think
I wrote this in September 2014 for our late lamented sister site May2015.com. With all the talk of another Scottish…
There’s just one British city where houses are less affordable than London
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers…
No, they haven't started building the Hyperloop
So here’s the exciting subject line of an exciting email I received yesterday: Subject: EMBARGO: Hyperloop Construction Begins Surely… it…
Nearly half of London’s boroughs still have fewer residents than they once did
Between World War 2, and the mid 1980s, London’s population did something surprising: it fell. London grew rapidly in the…
Someone redesigned the Manchester Metrolink map and made it much, much better
The Manchester Metrolink map is rubbish. It shows an indeterminate number of tram routes, every one of them in grey;…
Podcast: The Manc of the hour
On Wednesday, in Newton Heath, Labour’s Andy Burnham launched his manifesto to be the first elected mayor of Greater Manchester.…