All articles by Charlie Lawrence Jones

Charlie Lawrence Jones

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Infrastructure populism: on the politics of building big, or failing to

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The 1920s plan that’s weirder than any of Boris Johnsons’: draining the Mediterranean Sea

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When a dockless rent-a-bike winds up in a canal, whose job is it to fish it out?

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A brief history, and the murky future, of Britain’s almshouses

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Boris Johnson wants a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. But he’s not the first to suggest it.

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Four things we learned about the UK’s waterways from Chris Clegg’s Canal Time Map

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How shipping containers changed the world – and your day-to-day life

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Africa’s Great Green Wall: 8,000km of trees that could save millions of lives

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Bothies: The abandoned huts that’ll make the ideal post-Brexit holiday home in the Scottish Highlands

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Developers shouldn’t just treat canals as an aesthetic bonus. It’s time to use waterways for construction again