All articles by jonn elledge
jonn elledge
It’s time for London and the surrounding counties to start scrapping golf courses
I have, in idle moments of late, been trying to work out the answer to a slightly niche question: how…
Pity the landlords: John McDonnell wants Labour to introduce a private sector Right To Buy
In 2015, Dan Wilson-Craw of Generation Rent used these pages to present a modest proposal: a new right for tenants…
Podcast: A summer holiday, with Map Corner
I’m on my summer holidays, so here’s a guest episode. Skylines’ founding producer Roifield Brown recently teamed up with Luton’s…
Podcast: Trapped
A few weeks ago, a man called Samir Jeraj got onto the Northern line of the London Underground at Bank…
Here, 30-50 hours after it stopped being topical, are some maps of the USA’s fast-spreading feral hog infestation
If I used the phrase “30-50 feral hogs” to you in a social situation, you would almost certainly have one…
Podcast: Public enterprise
This week, it’s two interviews, unified by being at the intersection of politics and business, and also of my not…
The Nestify ads on the tube are disgusting, and TfL should stop taking the company’s money
Note: This article was updated at 2000hrs on 30 July to add a comment from Transport for London. I was…
In case you missed it, London’s Crossrail might not open until 2021
Chris Grayling was, and let’s be kind about this, not a good transport secretary. After his stints as not a…
A man who got his bag caught in a tube train’s doors for 15 stops would like to know if there's a map to help him
Did you know that, at the northbound Northern line platforms on Bank tube station, the doors will open on the…
Podcast: The regeneration game
So does “cultured-led regeneration” actually work? Can a shiny new museum ever be enough to fix a struggling post-industrial city?…