There was a bit of snow in London today.  It was hardly a shock, it was sleeting/slushy all afternoon and as soon as the sun went down (on the shortest day) it instantly started sticking in large quantities.  Then the slush already on the surface froze and at 16:35 I was on the phone to [...]

Yes, I know, I really need to cover air quality, housing, the Olympics, PPP, shared space and the Policy Exchange debate with Alan Johnson, but first let’s have another of our fact posts where I just bung some numbers up for future reference.  In this case, what’s the spread of per-mile costs for bus tenders [...]