James O'Malley writes about British infrastructure, transport, energy and media, with occasional pop-culture tangents, and promotes his YIMBY Pod podcast alongside each issue. Readers get opinionated explainers that dig into how systems like London's bus countdown actually work.
Website: https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Independent local news reporting on Kent, covering transport, planning, local government and community stories, with occasional interviews. Issues combine a wry, readable voice with explanatory detail on the background to each story.
A fortnightly independent local newspaper covering the London Borough of Hackney, with news, council and transport coverage, local history profiles and arts reporting. Readers get original, locally reported stories with quotes from residents, officials and artists.
Weekly essays from a practitioner who has delivered energy and infrastructure projects in the Gulf and Africa, focused on why projects succeed or fail after the announcement. Readers get field-based analysis of hydrogen value chains, plant operations and long-term asset performance.
Pipeline News is a local investigative newsletter focused on Enfield, covering neglected streets and tree maintenance in the EN3 area and the council's decisions on parking and the Broomfield House scheme. It pairs street-level reporting with close reading of council papers and the planning and listed-building consent issues.
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