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JonnElledge

@JonnElledge@mastodon.london

East End-based non-fic author, New Statesman columnist, keeper of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. The dog is named Henry Scampi.

https://www.newstatesman.com/author/jonn-elledge

https://jonn.substack.com/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonn-Elledge/e/B092PS3XJH%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

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There is such a thing as society - and to fix this country after 14 years of Tory ruin, we’re going to need to start saying as much. My latest

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/05/there-is-such-a-thing-as-society-austerity-state-cameron-thatcher

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Never mind Starmer's speech - the one pledge on MY card is to double the size of Plymouth and give the southwest the major city it deserves.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/wanderlust

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@Alon 120 miles and several hours travelling time away

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@Alon I'm not kidding. Some of it's lack of investment, some of it's just geography, but the motorway and fast railway lines both end at Exeter. Cornwall especially is remote.

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@Alon I'm not sure, but suspect not (there aren't that many people down here, it's barely over a million in Devon and Cornwall). Also I suspect the bigger factor is simply geography - the further west you go, the more rugged the landscape, so everything has to slow down.

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@Alon Fair enough - that makes sense. My gut instinct is that there are other reasons (lots of viaducts, turns etc) things slow down, but I could be wrong

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Since we're all waiting on the edge of our seats for the mayoral election result, here's a definitive and objective ranking of London’s Tube/Overground line names, based entirely on how much they annoy me personally.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/a-definitive-and-objective-ranking

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So how radical is Labour’s new rail policy, exactly?

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/04/how-radical-is-labours-new-rail-policy-really

JonnElledge, to random
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Hmm I'm still posting here, but

a) I've gone increasingly broadcast only, which is bad form, I know, but that's because

b) my follower count is sinking and there's hardly anyone here. Feels like BlueSky kind of won?

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"We’re not just the worst. We’re the worst by far." On the state of the British housing market.

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/04/housing-crisis-is-inescapable

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Why do we take so long to put the clocks forward? Some notes on illumination asymmetry.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/why-do-we-take-so-long-to-put-the

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British waters: On the confusing habit of some cities to claim unexpected bits of river, estuary or sea.

Another chapter cut from my new book, which is out in just 25 DAYS MY GOD

https://jonn.substack.com/p/british-waters

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"They come over here, they name our places…" Some evidence of Vikings.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/some-evidence-of-vikings

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The polls keep saying the Tories are on course for worst electoral result ever. So why aren't we talking about it?

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/03/no-one-is-prepared-for-the-upcoming-tory-wipeout

JonnElledge,
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@simonvarwell Quite. My suspicion is he's more radical than he's letting on - not more left-wing, but more ambitious. He's very comfortable lying about stuff for electoral reasons, but occasionally you get these glimpses, as on planning. But ... we don't know what he wants and that's not great

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@simonvarwell The planning stuff is a pretty big deal. It's controversial and at the root of a lot of our other issues (economic, demographic, quality of life). I suspect there'll be something on Europe too. Beyond that... hmm.

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How did the RNLI and the National Trust become hate figures on the right? Me in the Big Issue.

https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/rnli-lifeboat-crews-culture-war-right-wing-hate/

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The greatest disaster ever to take place on London’s tube: this week's free* post on the substack is about an unusual war memorial in my neighbourhood of Bethnal Green

(*previously paywalled)

https://jonn.substack.com/p/the-greatest-disaster-ever-to-take

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The Finns had a measure for the farthest distance at which you can hear a dog’s bark, and other notes on the history of measurement: this week's look behind the paywall

https://jonn.substack.com/p/some-notes-on-the-history-of-measurement

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IT'S HERE: Nimby Watch, my new column for CapX, in which I celebrate the way our planning system is working to save the country from the blight of affordable housing or decent infrastructure. First up - the story of the Bethnal Green mulberry tree.

https://capx.co/introducing-nimby-watch/

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NEWSLETTER! This week: how Rishi Sunak turned HS2 into a symbol of his terrible approach to government; some notes on house numbering; and an act of diplomatic trolling.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/running-the-numbers

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Schrodinger’s Rail Terminal: A trip to Old Oak Common

https://jonn.substack.com/p/schrodingers-rail-terminal

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The UK press has only one solution for the broken rental market: clickbait. My bit on the housing crisis outrage machine (of which, yes yes, I have been a proud cog for a decade)

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/01/housing-crisis-outrage

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"...the exact midpoint between the popular parlour game of wink murder and the Milgram Experiment..." Since I'm clearly going to become OBSESSED again, here's my it bit from last year in which I try to work out why The Traitors is so compelling https://jonn.substack.com/p/why-is-the-traitors-so-compelling

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@miss_s_b the twist in episode 3 made me literally scream

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