When you receive a gift like London’s newly named Suffragette line, perhaps it’s ungrateful to cavil. For as long as trains run between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside calling at Walthamstow and Wanstead, female passengers can reflect that at least one mayor of London (all of them, to date, being male) chose to celebrate, as Sadiq Khan put it, “the working-class movement born in the East End that fought for votes for women”.
Hang on. Didn’t it originate in Manchester, in the middle-class home of Emmeline Pankhurst? No, never mind, it’s still a lovely thought.
