From the archive: HS2 isn’t about the north of England at all – it’s about commuters in Milton Keynes
Do we need a new superfast railway so that Mancunians can get to London’s gold-paved streets more quickly? Or…
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“Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle
For a year now, the Open Data Institute Leeds has been tracking most of the buses and trams in…
ByThe Northern rail chaos shows why the North should control its own railways
In 2014, I took the short walk from my office to Leeds train station to take part in the…
ByThe most important graph in British economics
“Is there a relationship between city size and productivity?” the Centre for Cities asked in February 2015. The blog…
ByWestminster’s failure to build public transport in Leeds will be a disaster for Londoners
The Leeds Supertram bill was first discussed in the House of Commons in 1991. I was six years old.…
ByTo bring back trust in politics, Britain needs a local measure of GDP
The Indigo Prize was created to find a better way of measuring the economy than the traditional GDP. In…
ByWhy the north needs devolution, explained in four questions
Here are the answers to the most common questions I get about devolution in the North of England. Why…
ByHere's how we build a car free Birmingham
Recently I took part in a workshop at on how we might create a car-free Birmingham. There were lots…
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