Blog posts tagged "Luton"

March 24, 2010 6:37 am 52 Comments

I found the whole experience of being cast off into towns we never visit to talk to people we rarely meet somewhat like going on a foreign trip, writes Jon Snow.

March 23, 2010 9:18 am 36 Comments

What the £178bn deficit looks like from the ground - Jon Snow visits Luton and finds a town of contrasts, from gin and tonics on the bowling green to some of the most dispossessed housing estates imaginable.

March 11, 2010 8:59 am 21 Comments

I am on the road in UK PLC taking the temperature ahead of the impending election. Luton is to be my first stop – I catch the 22.32 train from London’s St Pancras. What a station; what a train! A winter palace contrasted with an elderly cake tin. The cake tin takes off at surprising speed. [...]