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If levelling up is replacing with new central funding the Christmas lights that local councils had to cut due to central funding cuts then,... it'll probably win loads of votes

Personal news Klaxon as they say --- thanks for all the tweets, I'm going to be moving to London on January to split my time between Centre for Cities and

Just to cheer everyone up, a quick reminder from me that cuts to local government are continuing, as they have for the past decade, during this pandemic. It's just the

I downloaded all 25m residential property transactions in England and Wales since 1995. Filtered to only the "new build" sales. Looked up the location of each property and put it

Good luck to the English Midlands in their ambition to create an Oyster card style (it could easily use debit cards as the card) public transport payment system.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-54350036?__twitter_impression=true Le

Is the UK's coast poor? Yes, but only because of England. A blog post in which I share how to create this map of coastal income -- and explain why

Such a relief when weeks of trying things starts to work. And the first results are so often so underwhelming. Here's a map of everywhere within 10km of the coast

So frustrating to see that "England's Covid-19 rate is increasing because more tests are being done" piece go viral over the weekend and this morning. It's a decent piece, and

UK gov: "let's have a Germany-style education system"..English education experts: "that's a bad idea because England doesn't have a Germany-style manufacturing economy"..Tom: "actually, quite a lot of En

If we assume for a moment that Matt Hancock is being completely transparent as to why local level Covid-19 testing results still aren't available -- he says that ‘there’s a

For two months France has had its local lockdown system set up, with clear definitions of what would happen, under what conditions. It has published all the data that would

Leeds City Council's implantation of a booking system at tips was,* succesful.* widely praised in the local press and by residents.* a complex multi-part technical solution implemented in about a