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Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman's urbanism site. Every two weeks, Jonn Elledge, colleagues and guests discuss the politics & workings of cities and test their contention that...
Casablanca is 102 minutes long. Citizen Kane runs for 119. This, the 150th and final episode of Skylines, the CityMetric podcast, is longer...
Partly because of the crisis, partly for reasons we’ll come to in a moment, our production schedule on Skylines has got a bit lax. So the fi...
I’m still locked down, and so, I assume, are you, so this week’s show is a game of two-halves. In the present, I speak to my lockdown compan...
Apologies for the fact this week’s podcast is a little bit late. But in my defence, both time and the calendar have lost all meaning. Anyway...
The mayoral walks mini-series began in an act of trolling. Rory Stewart launched his campaign to be mayor of London through the unusual stra...
In all the excitement over the London mayoral election, and Brexit, and coronavirus, and the end of civilisation as we know it, it might hav...
This week, it’s the second in our mayoral walks mini-series. Sian Berry is the co-leader of the Green party, a member of the London Assembly...
In just over three months, England goes to the polls, again, for local elections. This time round the big story, at least so far as we’re co...
Rory Stewart likes to walk around London. So do I. And so, a few months ago, someone on Twitter gave me an idea for a fun wheeze: that we co...
I’ve barely been in the office since we released the last Skylines, so this week it's a guest episode. Commonwealth Voices is another podcas...
I realised earlier that this is the fourth Skylines Christmas Special, which apart from being a marker of quite how long I've been doing thi...
Well, here we go again. We’re seven days out from polling day here in the UK, and I don’t know about you but I’m not feeling great about it....
This podcast has been a bit parochial of late (read: London-bound) so this week we're going abroad. Max Rashbrooke is a journalist, author a...
Skylines is out and about again this week. Epping Forest is a 13 mile long strip of wooded land straddling the border between London and Ess...
This week, I finally invited someone I should have asked years ago onto the podcast. Anoosh Chakelian is a long time colleague of mine at th...
In roughly the same manner as the Greenland Ice Sheet, the London mayoral election is hotting up. Ex-Tory Rory Stewart has entered the race...
One of the more exciting things to have happened in the already fairly exciting world of housing and planning policy in recent years is the...
The present is terrible and the future may be worse, so let's take refuge in the past. Monica L. Smith as an archaeologist and professor of...
I’m on my summer holidays, so here’s a guest episode. Skylines’ founding producer Roifield Brown recently teamed up with Luton’s own Claire...
A few weeks ago, a man called Samir Jeraj got onto the Northern line of the London Underground at Bank station, promptly got his bag strap c...
This week, it’s two interviews, unified by being at the intersection of politics and business, and also of my not really, if I’m absolutely...
So does “cultured-led regeneration” actually work? Can a shiny new museum ever be enough to fix a struggling post-industrial city? Or a part...
Finland, Finland, Finland, as Monty Python once sang: Finland has it all. Well, it has some things anyway, and more to the point its embassy...
This week's guest is John Boughton, teacher, historian and author of an excellent housing-flavoured blog, which last year appeared as a full...
In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in a west London tower block; 72 people died in the resulting conflagration, many of th...
This week, two disparate segments linked by the idea of trading with the world. Well, vaguely. It’s there, but you have to squint. First up:...
This week it's one of those two-for-the-price-of-one episodes where I'm not even going to pretend the conversations are connected. They are,...
This week it’s another live episode, of sorts. In early April I was lucky enough to chair an event at the Cambridge Literary Festival with t...
Last year, Burhan Wazir wrote a lovely piece for the New Statesman under the headline, “The changing shape of Britain’s mosques”. In it he t...
The last few of these things have been quite serious, so let's mix it up a bit with some spurious nonsense. And what better way to do that t...
I’ve been on holiday, and when I came back the entirety of British politics was on fire. So, on this occasion, I’ve fallen a bit behind with...
This week’s podcast is a live show, recorded at the New Local Government Network’s annual conference on 26 February. (We did this last year,...
Two interviews this week, which are both about the future of our cities but are otherwise unrelated except for allowing me to come up with a...
Baby it's cold outside – or at least it was, in certain parts of the world, when we recorded this, ho hum. Anyway, that's the week's topic....
This week, we’re off to China. Now the U.S. bureau chief for the South China Morning Post, Robert Delaney spent many years as a foreign corr...
This week’s podcast is a bit of a sandwich. In the middle, you’ll find an informative and nutritious conversation with Paul Swinney of the C...
This week, 'tis the season for large chunks of the population of any major city to up-sticks and head back to whatever small town they grew...
Good news, everyone: this podcast doesn't even glance at Brexit. Bad news: it is about environmental catastrophe, or at least, the infrastru...
This week, I’m chatting about the housing crisis with the Centre for London. Last summer, research manager Victoria Pinoncely was co-author...
You'll be delighted, I'm sure, to learn this podcast is not about Brexit. I've been in Newcastle, capital in the north east of England, for...
110. The rise of the robots This week, it’s about work, automation, fear and loathing in god’s own county of Essex. New Statesman tech write...
This is a repeat – sorry gang, I’ve been horrendously busy. But, there are quite a lot of episodes of this thing now. And as the audience ha...
This week, it’s all about mayors, and also someone who the smart money says will never become one. I’ve dragged Stephen Bush back into the p...
This week, we’re off to an English city that, to my shame, I’ve been neglecting: Bristol, the largest city in the south west, and indeed the...
It’s a bit of a game of two halves this week. First up, I talk to Eric Klinenberg – director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New Yo...
Crossrail is running late. The opening of London’s £15bn new railway, also known, horribly, as the Elizabeth line, has been delayed by the b...
Exciting news, lads: Skylines has been on tour! Well, sort of: this is the first episode we’ve ever recorded primarily outside London. I’ve...
And so to the second of our London Tory mayoral candidate interviews. This time it's Joy Morrissey: an American-born Ealing councillor, form...
There are three people on the shortlist to be the Conservative candidate for London mayor in the 2020 election. So this week, we're speaking...
Leeds! Sheffield! Bradford! Huddersfield! This podcast has, figuratively speaking, not spent enough time in any of them. So, this week we’re...