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jonn elledge
This new take on London's tube and rail map is neat, clear and beautiful
You know, somewhere out there in the great media blob that clings to this world like an overgrown squid, there…
Britain's unlikely startup capital is… Northampton
Which is the best city in Britain to start a business, do you think? Is it London, with its silicon…
Bored at work? Here’s a Google-style digital map of the Roman Empire to play with
If you’re anything like me, you’ll have spent many years fretting over a single vexed question: What’s the best route…
Devolution is meant to be about boring practical things. So why do we obsess about identity?
Please don’t judge me for this, but I’m from Romford. Romford, if you have any sense of it at all,…
Spending Review: Here's why chancellor George Osborne is handing £2.3bn to housing developers
There was rather a lot of housing stuff in chancellor George Osborne’s autumn statement this afternoon – so much, in fact,…
No, the Thames is not too wide to build new river crossings in east London
Travel west from Tower Bridge, and before reaching the M25, London’s orbital motorway, you’ll find some two dozen road crossings…
The Campaign to Protect Rural England is now campaigning to protect London's sewage farms
“The behaviour of any bureaucratic organization,” runs Robert Conquest’s third law of politics, “can best be understood by assuming that…
Can cities save the world? Benjamin Barber, Edward Glaeser and others say they can
So here’s a question for you: can cities save the world? This may seem a tad unlikely. (Seriously, have you…
Mapped: “Crossrail 2”, and a century of failing to bring London’s tube network to Hackney
The east London borough of Hackney is famous for two things: an almost unbearable concentration of hipsters, and the complete…
Here's why a manufacturing revival won't save the north of England
The debate about rebalancing the British economy and closing the north-south divide has been going on for almost literally as…