Why we love Luton Airport, and a terrible plan for changing the London Mayoralty

In the fifth episode of The Abundance Agenda, hosts James O’Malley and Martin Robbins explore (rage at) a deeply terrible proposal to make it harder for the Mayor of London to do their job.

Then they dig into plans to double the capacity of Luton Airport, looking at how the airport democratised air travel in the past – and how to reconcile caring about climate change with the need to expand airports.

Then finally, we speak to David Lawrence and Julia Willemyns, the co-founders of the Centre for British Progress, a new think-tank that researches and promotes, er, basically the sort of things we like. We talk about why economic growth should be at the heart of progressive politics.

The Abundance Agenda is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and hopefully wherever you get your podcasts!

You can find James on Bluesky here, and Martin here.

Here’s the must-read “Rediscovering British Progress” essay.

Here’s London Centric on the proposal to make the Mayor of London share power.

And here’s our newsletter posts for the week:

The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test

Why does Britain feel so poor?