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9 months

At some point in Aldi you just have to concede that you don't understand trademark law.

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That Indian railway electrification number seems to check out. Coloured = electrified. Black = not electrified.

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The logo at the bottom left is what makes it. Perfect.

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None of the barbers near The Barbican are called The Barbercan. We used to be a country.

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How often do you think about how Denmark is building a railway tunnel to Germany that will reduce travel time for people by two hours and massively decrease freight distances? Under construction now and due to be finished in 2029. More or less than the Roman Empire?

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"why do train drivers earn so much more than bus drivers?" is a great economics question.

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Train drivers are paid significantly more than bus drivers, but 70% of Britons think that being a bus driver is the harder job to do - only 12% think being a train driver is harder

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Still just an incredible graph. One of the all time great natural experiments in policy imho.

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7 years

How bus use has changed in London and in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).

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Ciabatta was invented in Italy in 1982 to stop French baguettes from taking over Italian bakeries. Ploughman's lunch was created in the 1960s by the British Milk Marketing Board to sell more cheese. Fondue very similar. What other invented foods are there I should know about?

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In 2015 I wrote quite a cynical piece about HS2 in which I argued that it was probably all about using Manchester and Leeds to build a business case for increasing rail capacity between Milton Keynes and London. And actually it wasn't cynical enough. Lesson learned I suppose.

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Scottish Government should buy Channel 4. Just for the carnage.

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4 months

Just spent a whole, very interesting, day in Birmingham thinking about why the UK struggles with economic growth and productivity, especially in its second cities (which are unusually poor). I got one of these trains down. I'll get one of them back. It is embarrassing.

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Another horrible @CrossCountryUK journey with lots of people standing on a four carriage train. 🧵

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Asked Bing to design a city hall for a new North English capital city. Absolute banger.

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5 years

In 2003, Bordeaux had no tram. In 2003, Leeds had no tram. In 2020, Bordeaux's tram will look like this, the dotted lines complete. In 2020, Leeds will have no tram, no metro, and not much else. We are bad at this in the UK. It makes us all poorer than we could be.

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Good video for the "why can the French build railways much cheaper?" ponderers here. Safety is one part of it.

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Racing ya @TGVINOUI 🚄

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Shout out to the FT for not just the best coverage of UK inflation, but also the best creation of UK inflation.

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2 years

The bus use graph in the FT bus article is fantastic. Contains the absolute minimum information to make the correct point clearly and honestly.

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TIL that Montréal (about the same population as Manchester, UK) is opening this year and over the coming four years a 26 station, 4 branch, cross-city, fully electrified commuter railway RER-style system which will be completely automated and driverless.

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First time I've ever seen a hedge get tagged.

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5 years

Siri, show me a visual metaphor for the power of national vs. local/regional government within the UK.

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2 years

Quite a common question I get on this very website is "why trams not buses?" and the answer is, I think, quite simple. Trams are cheaper to run. Not to build, oh they cost lots and lots and lots to build, but once you've built them, they can actually make money.

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I employ three people who live in Nottingham. It's useful to get them to come to Leeds a couple of times a week. And it shouldn't be that hard. Nottingham is 60 miles away. Similar distance as, say, Eindhoven to Rotterdam. And both pairs are connected by a direct train,...

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I wanted to actually go in and see it with my own eyes. Sometimes twitter is uncharitable. I wanted to see it for myself. And it's really there. It really does talk about extending Metrolink to Manchester Airport. Metrolink to Manchester Airport opened in 2014.

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1 year

The road connecting Sheffield and Manchester compared to the road connecting similarly* sized and distant Austin and San Antonio.

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Hundreds of financial officers at councils across the country will be grateful for the help here. This will probably be the first time in a decade they've considered cutting wasteful spending.

BBC Breakfast

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2 months

The Chancellor will extend a freeze on fuel duty and warn councils in England to cut 'wasteful spending'. On #BBCBreakfast chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman had more details ahead of tomorrow's Budget

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4 months

I know all the data. So there's no surprise. Never drawn it this well I don't think though. Great stuff FT graph people.

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1 year

Part of the solution to Oxford, Cambridge, and London lab space being so expensive would be to move the UK's scientific excellence North. It wouldn't be that hard. There's just one problem.

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So,... there's an amazing plugin for QGIS from Japan (sponsored by Toyota it seems) which takes GTFS public transport timetables and creates frequency maps with no work and I loaded up the GTFS format GB railway timetable (which I obviously have hanging around) and wow.

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2 years

I got the GDP/person data for all the OECD cities in The EU and the UK with more than a million residents. And then I removed Dublin (because the data's daft) and then I made this graph. And now I'll get back to reading British writing/opinions about our cities "pulling ahead".

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2 years

Classy move by Liz Truss's campaign. She's miles ahead, but Britons prefer a close contest to a landslide and proposing a *checks notes* pay cut for *checks notes* nurses and teachers in *checks notes* everywhere but South East England is certainly a way to even up the contest.

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A mod for City Skylines called "England" where you zone the land but then all the existing residents block development and all the advisors at the bottom of the screen just say "it's more complex and nuanced than that, probably interest rates".

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"Birmingham City Council has confirmed it will raise council tax by 21% over the next two years as part of £300m budget savings. Street lights are to be dimmed, waste collections are to become fortnightly, while burial costs will increase." Ooooof.

'Bankrupt’ Birmingham reveals 21% council tax rise

The rise will be over two years as 'bankrupt' Birmingham City Council makes drastic savings.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

Right up there with the worst tweets of all time this. So many facets to its wrongness and what it says about Britain.

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@paulmasonnews

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It's OPERATION ROLLING PARTRIDGE!!! Liz Truss is going to hit BBC •local radio• stations this morning where a bunch of sleep-deprived non-expert presenters will throw her soft questions, while she dodges the heavy hitters. (h/t @politico )

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2 years

The decline in French alcohol consumption is just astonishing. The average French person drinks less than a quarter as much wine today as they did in the 1960s. And look at that cidre decline.

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2 years

My Labour electoral reform take? Don't talk about it. Put a very vague reference in the manifesto. Something like "we will strengthen our Parliamentary democracy". Then do whatever you like if you win. That's what the Tories did on changing voting system for Mayors. Do the same.

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7 months

Labour are, I suspect, very sadly, right not to promise to uncancel HS2. The earth is being salted, the wells are being poisoned. It's probably over. Try again in a decade or two. Hope I'm wrong. Don't reckon I am.

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7 months

Meanwhile in Australia: huge local infrastructure investment in one of its Manchester-sized cities will open two years early.

Melbourne’s $12bn Metro Tunnel to open in September 2024, builder lets slip

The head of construction giant John Holland reveals the new, early completion date at a Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry event

www.theguardian.com

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4 months

Identify the location of the junction in the pipework for your central heating with this one weird trick.

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3 years

Everyone's dunking on the EU but who else has managed to achieve complete political agreement across the whole of Great Britain and Ireland in the history of ever?

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7 years

How bus use has changed in London and in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).

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9 months

Don't get all these people going to Kings Cross to see an imaginary train. There's usually two dozen a day at Huddersfield.

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"archenemies". What a day for us. Gutted for the USA taking the L.

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The British prime minister Rishi Sunak has arrived in Kiev to sign a “historic UK-Ukraine Agreement on Security Cooperation.” What would Western public say, if the British representatives happened to be bombarded with cluster ammunition in the centre of Kiev, just as was the…

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Tram tracks in Leeds.

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3 years

I had to check, so I did, and it's true. The 2019 Conservative Party Manifesto contains zero Union flags.

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1 year

Just watched this again. I'm up to three full watches now. And each time it just gets madder and madder and madder. Are we actually sure that it's real?

insane moments in british politics

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Tory MPs call for Gordon Brown to resign as Chancellor after he scheduled his budget during the same days as the Cheltenham horse-racing Festival (2004)

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Because of how they've styled the All-Caps title in the source PDF it looks like Sinn Féin's policy is to have a SpongeBob health service.

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4 months

Oh how they must have laughed when they pressed publish.

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4 years

In 2009 The French Minister of Health reacted extremely strongly to H1N1 Flu. Huge orders of vaccines. Stockpiling of nearly 2 billion masks. . Fewer than 400 French died. Most of the €600m stock was destroyed as it went out of date. She was accused of waste and scaremongering.

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As a veteran of "Poland will overtake the UK" twitter my view is pretty simple,... well why wouldn't we expect that? Comparable city regions in Poland have far better physical infrastructure, access to well-educated workers, access to capital and markets to sell goods/services.

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Why electrify? The Danes say it well. * Faster. * Quieter. * Cheaper for passengers. * More reliable. * Cheaper for operators and the state. * Better for the environment.

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I've been looking at low productivity in the UK. Trying to find examples with data of where it actually happens. Public transport is an ace example. Compared to our more productive neighbouring countries we use far more drivers to transport fewer people. That's low productivity.

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1 year

I was having a good chat the other day about urban trees and why we don't have more of them and I think this pair of photographs shows it pretty much perfectly.

Liverpool: Then and Now

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Dickens Street, Toxteth, 1911 and 2023 Taken from between Pickwick Street and Dombey Street

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2 years

I had four bottles of Stella and wrote about how much poorer North England is than the Netherlands and why there's really no good reason why it should be.

North England vs. The Netherlands.

North England has the same population living at the same density as The Netherlands. How do their economies compare and why is one so much more prosperous than the other?'

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I would welcome this. With two conditions that most UK gov people absolutely hate, and hated when I suggested it about Covid inquiry, thus won't happen. . . Inquiry must be done >100 miles from London. Inquiry must be led by foreigners. Irish, Dutch, French, Belgians. Not Brits.

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Think we need a proper inquiry into HS2 from start to finish. It's been such a shambles it risks putting govt off from ever doing major infrastructure projects again.

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Awesome awesome awesome. The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine no longer needs a super-cold supply chain. They've reformulated, shared learning, done all the tests, submitted the data, and it's now approved in the EU for distribution at fridge temperature.

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From Eindhoven to Rotterdam the train is four times as long, twice as quick, and almost infinitely more reliable. They're even rolling out brand new trains now. To take advantage of the Netherlands' high speed line. This is what North England has to compete with and beat.

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3 years

I wrote about why the French will tell pollsters that they don't think the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, why that doesn't matter, and why they'd take it anyway, which they mostly can't, because of supply issues. So they'll take the BioNTech vaccine instead.

Miserabalism

The Republic is cool, but the force that really holds France together is pretending to be miserable.

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2 years

Northern Powerhouse Rail would have increased the accessibility of Bradford by public transport by 130%. From a city of 1.2 million to a city of 2.7 million. We have better models of this than Number 10 and Number 11. We did the work. They cancelled it.

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I think my favourite blob on the FT charts (which are a fantastic example of finding and telling the story and getting rid of as much else as possible so that the story speaks) is Eindhoven. A remote post-industrial lightbulb factory without a university doomed to decline,......

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Places like Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Newcastle that could host the future of British success are looked down upon so constantly, dismissed so thoroughly, and held back so desperately lest they succeed and the current powerholders lose power.

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4 months

Many reasons to massively expand York, but York having a Metropolitan Combined Authority called the YMCA is up there.

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10 months

"Sunak plans to restrict councils..." - the details of what he wants to restrict don't matter much. It's the urge to restrict that makes the UK an underperforming economy. Everything decided by the centre, its institutions, and its machinery of government.

Ministers consider curbs on councils’ use of 20mph speed limits

Exclusive: moves against what PM terms ‘anti-motorist’ policies follow order of review into low-traffic neighbourhoods

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Contrary to popular belief, coastal towns in Britain are very very prosperous. . . Edinburgh. Aberdeen. Brighton. Bournemouth. Bristol. Cardiff. London. . . Oh you didn't mean places like that? You only mean the poor places? Well they're poor then. By definition.

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1 year

Live feed from the VAR room.

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3 years

This video of how Ocado use thousands of robots to pick and pack online shopping is AMAZING. I had no idea we were this far along.

How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?

In Ocado's grocery warehouses, thousands of mechanical boxes move on the Hive. Are they all individual robots? Or is this one giant hive mind? • Thanks to Oc...

www.youtube.com

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Two? Two major cities? The route on the left connects two cities? Two? 2? II? Two?

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1 year

Britain's national institutions from right to left and everywhere in between will fight tooth and nail to stop that. The contempt and hostility, whether personal or institutional, for anywhere further than 100 km from London succeeding is even more enormous than I ever imagined.

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Every time I buy, cook, and eat really good Mackerel I feel like someone in the 1900s eating Oysters before they were cool and thus expensive. If Mackerel was expensive it'd be just as desirable as tuna I reckon. Such good fish. Thank you Norway for these ones. 🇳🇴

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2 years

Preparing some data for a thing. Astonishing.

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11 months

Ah Monday morning. Watching the bus driver take a twenty pound note, get out a plastic laminating pouch, print a ticket, and stick it into the pouch. A weekly ticket. In 2023. All while 70 people on the bus wait.

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I'm sure this is just standard sensible export finance. Supporting jobs in the UK as part of an investment that makes the UK money in the longer term. But the headlines sure are funny after I just took two diesel trains on major UK railways because there's no electricity.

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12 Canary Wharfs eh? 12 places whose success will be underpinned by large UK government investment in better transport? A Jubilee Line and a DLR for every Northern city? I can't wait.

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Here's the part of Europe with similar population density to North England vs. North England.

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7 months

He won't.

Lewis Goodall

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NEW: SUNAK CANCELS NORTHERN HS2 LEG says he will reinvest “every single penny-£36bn in transport projects n the north and midlands.”

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Exciting experience on the cycle home. Four teenagers abusing a lady. Quite graphic and up close. I explained that this was unacceptable. Three of them (thankfully) realised that it was unacceptable and didn't join in trying to beat me up. I am bigger than the remaining lad was.

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I think I'll survive losing the mural.

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The Boris Johnson story is just too good to be true. I'm going to need at least 10x verifications on this.

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5 years

My verdict on @jburnmurdoch 's visualisation library bar chart races? Excellent! It's taken me a few hours, because I've never used observable before, and I'm not great at D3, and I started in a bit of a silly place. But it works.... So here's GDP/head of EU regions since 1900.

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11 months

I still think the UK government should build it. It's just,... £5bn for a new railway between the tiny cities of Cambridge and Oxford via a few small towns does feel a bit daft while we continue to cancel all but the smallest investments in our fourth largest city region (Leeds).

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2 years

Radio Lancashire asking a PM about fracking in Lancashire is 10x the impact of Radio 4 faffing about in hypothetical abstraction complex-language voice. A national story told by the people whose houses are gonna get rumbled and whose water is gonna get bubbly.

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Two weeks ago a lot of people told me that "actually Leeds has a lower population than <a city with a lower population than Leeds". So I built a tool that calculates the population within any distance from point on the globe.

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Fun fact: I have a friend who is a doctor and for a very long time the keyboard on their main computer didn't work and they couldn't get it replaced and they tried their own but for security it wouldn't work so they typed their notes into their own mobile phone for months.

Stuart Hoddinott

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Completely agree that doctors and nurses lose too much of their time to admin work But that's mostly due to a lack of managerial staff and poor IT - e.g. computers that barely turn on Neither of those are fixed by investing in "AI"

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5 months

I wouldn't say disbelief. The more common emotion I saw was complete belief.

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1 year

Oooh, a fun "is £100k a high income?" bonus day. One of the best conversations in Britain.

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1 year

North England, the Netherlands, and North Rhine-Westphalia have similarly dense and populous urban cores. But North England has ⅓ as many tram and train stops, and ⅓ as much state investment in R&D. Our economy is ⅓ weaker and falling further behind.

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7 months

This. That's my only opinion on any announcements today. It won't happen. We need an election. As soon as possible.

Louise Haigh

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The Conservative’s promised Northern Powerhouse Rail sixty times and in three consecutive Conservative manifestos. After this Tory fiasco - why should anyone believe the Tories can deliver anything they say?

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9 months

It's comparing apples and oranges in many ways, especially given variable bounding of local authorities. . But still, . In two hours yesterday Manchester City Council approved more new homes than Oxford and Cambridge combined have delivered in four years.

Manchester city centre plan for 4,800 new homes approved

A proposal in Manchester for 3,250 properties at Red Bank and 1,551 at Dantzic Street is approved.

www.bbc.co.uk

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7 months

I liked this tweet and the discussion it led to. My two answers (if we accept the premise) are, 1/ Britain overall is great at services, but most of Britain isn't, so we wouldn't expect it to dominate national discussions. 2/ Those services we are good at, we hate. (eg. Bet365).

CoKeynesian

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It's really wild how the UK is the world's second-largest exporter of services (bigger than Germany or China!), yet services are mostly ignored in discussions about the British economy.

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6 years

This is a hexmap of every constituency in England & Wales. The colours show how much house prices have changed since 2007. Green = increased. Yellow = the same. Red = fallen.

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6 months

Stagnant GDP with high immigration presumably means a fall in GDP per person?

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1 year

Copenhagen, a city with a similar population and population density to Leeds, has decided to make its fully-electrified commuter railway system (S-banen) fully-driverless and automated by about 2030.

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Today I've seen two AI things that I just didn't believe were AI. Too good. Too real. So,... I've just asked an AI song machine to write me a song about Bradford and Leeds forming a single functional city thanks to a new tram,... I told it nothing more than that.

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8 months

I, like others, am massively enjoying the US "why is the UK's Prime Minister announcing the banning of a single breed of dog?" as if that's far too centralised. If only you knew that the UK PM recently announced a £250,000 plan to install 100 chess boards in public parks.

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5 months

Such an absolute banger of a train station and a city.

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9 months

I bought the Professor Peppy because it was so funny. So I think I wasn't confused. Which means it's not a trademark infringement. Maybe?

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3 months

"UK’s HS2 railway offers ‘very poor value’ for money, MPs warn" > no surprise at all. This is absolutely clear in every business case that I've ever read about HS2. You only start getting the value once you extend the capacity to Yorkshire and the Mersey.

UK’s HS2 railway offers ‘very poor value’ for money, MPs warn

Public accounts committee says neither managers nor government are able to explain project’s benefits

www.ft.com

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8 months

France is extending the TGV to Nice. One way to make it faster and to increase capacity a lot is to stop trains from the North having to reverse at Marseille to go East. So they're building a new underground station, with four platforms. Should be done in 2035. ish. maybe.