{"slug": "my-trip-to-europe-s-craziest-border-odds-and-ends-106", "title": "My trip to Europe's craziest border (Odds and Ends #106)", "summary": "In his newsletter 'Odds and Ends #106', Sam Wetherell recounts his visit to what he calls Europe's craziest border, discusses the Jason Arday controversy, shares a London travel time map, and reveals he has moved closer to AI-doomer. The newsletter also promotes the YIMBY Pod episode featuring Jamie Airnes of Cornish Lithium on Cornwall's lithium ambitions.", "body_md": "# My trip to Europe's craziest border (Odds and Ends #106)\n\n### Plus my brief take on Jason Arday, a cool London travel time map, and why I've moved a notch closer to AI-doomer.\n\n**POD! **On this week, Martin and I dig into Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda, talking about integrated transport ticketing, making the lines on the map more consistent, and much more. Then we speak to\n\n[YIMBY Pod](http://yimbypod.com/)\n\n**Jamie Airnes** from\n\n**Cornish Lithium** about his attempt to turn Cornwall into a lithium superpower.\n\n[Listen here, or wherever you get your pods!](http://yimbypod.com/)\n\nHello! It’s time for *Odds and Ends*, your semi-regular round-up of the most interesting links I’ve seen this week, plus some shorter takes.\n\nThis week, you’ll have to indulge me as I’m going to tell you about an interesting place I visited recently – though I think you’ll find it interesting. Then we’ve got some fun and scary links on what’s going on in AI – and whether you like it or not, I’m going to tell you what I think of the Jason Arday controversy.\n\nNow let’s get started!\n\n### My trip to Europe’s craziest border\n\nEvery so often someone will confuse me and [Jonn Elledge](https://jonn.substack.com). I can sort-of see why[1](#footnote-1) – we both write nerdy Substacks that often touch upon similar topics, especially as Jonn is one of the people who radicalised me on housing back when he was the editor of *CityMetric*.\n\n## Keep reading with a 7-day free trial\n\nSubscribe to Odds and Ends of History to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-trip-to-europe-s-craziest-border-odds-and-ends-106", "canonical_source": "https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/my-trip-to-europes-craziest-border", "published_at": "2026-08-11 06:01:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 06:05:27.188399+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Sam Wetherell", "Jonn Elledge", "Jason Arday", "Cornish Lithium", "Jamie Airnes", "YIMBY Pod", "CityMetric", "Andy Burnham"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-trip-to-europe-s-craziest-border-odds-and-ends-106", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-trip-to-europe-s-craziest-border-odds-and-ends-106.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-trip-to-europe-s-craziest-border-odds-and-ends-106.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-trip-to-europe-s-craziest-border-odds-and-ends-106.jsonld"}}