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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Quangocrat Surname Of The Week
Spotted by MBK in The Times: Kids Company was facing further questions over managerial and financial misconduct yesterday after it emerged that two children of... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2015 DEBATE -
Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater
From the BBC: What is the government doing? Ministers want EU migrants to live in the UK for four years before they can claim benefits. Read more
Posted on 11 August 2015 DEBATE -
"Liz Kendall Accuses Labour Leadership Rivals of Conducting Hurtful Smear Test...
From The Evening Standard and Wikipedia: A supporter of Liz Kendall has accused her Labour leadership rivals of carrying out a hurtful "smear test” campaign. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2015 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: Monopolies
Traditional thinking is that a monopoly means that there is one single supplier of any particular category of goods or services. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2015 DEBATE -
"Airport VAT Rip-off on Duty-free Sales That Nets Millions of Pounds for Top...
From The Daily Mail: Top British retailers were last night accused of making millions from tax discounts on duty-free sales at airports – without lowering price... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2015 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (366)
From The Scotsman: That the council tax system badly needs to be overhauled or even replaced is not in doubt... The most progressive option is probably land... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: Household Savings Have Risen 300% Since 1975
From This Is Money: Households today have around four times the level of savings that the typical family had in real terms 40 years ago, new findings suggest. Read more
Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE -
Ant-Man and Dec-Man
From IMDB and Wikipedia: Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but maintain their full sized capacity to irritate, Ant-Boy and Dec-Boy rise to... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE -
Cor Blimey, Who'd Thunk It
Adam Smith Blog, here I quote (a quote): All people born in rich countries thus receive a location premium or a location rent; all those born in poor countries... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2015 DEBATE -
Persimmon's Land Bank and Number of Completions
Using numbers from their investor relations page, I have cobbled together the following chart for your infotainment: I think that Persimmon are fairly typical... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2015 DEBATE -
Look, I Am Sorry But...
Obviously this old trout was always a confidence trickster. Sometime ago I was momentarily unable to avoid her being interviewed / aka fawned over on BBC and al... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2015 DEBATE -
Deliberately Confusing Cause and Effect.
From an otherwise sound article in The Guardian, pointing out that until the late 1990s, most people didn't pay much or anything at all for the land underneath... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2015 DEBATE -
"Locals Rescue Cow from Isolated Llangrannog Beach"
From Cambrian News Online: LOCALS in Llangrannog pulled together to rescue a stranded cow from an unexpected beach break last night (Thursday). Read more
Posted on 04 August 2015 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Abroad and The News
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Abroad. All very grim, all very tricky. Waves of migrants in the Mediterranean - 44% Isis and Syri... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 DEBATE -
Review: Inside Out
It's rare that I see a film and come out thinking that I haven't just seen a movie, but a film that might just be a classic. I see a lot of very entertaining... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2015 DEBATE -
"Cornish Cow Gets Head Stuck in a Tree"
Spotted by Thomas Hall in The Plymouth Herald: The young bullock was found tightly wedged by a visitor at National Trust property Trelissick House. Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 DEBATE -
"Southeastern Train Derailed by Cows on Line in Kent"
Spotted by James Higham in The Telegraph: A Kent railway line has been closed after a train derailed when it hit cows that had strayed onto the track. Read more
Posted on 29 July 2015 DEBATE -
"Harmful Meddling Among Middle-class Over-50s Reaching Dangerous Levels"
From The Guardian: Medical doctors and university researchers over 50 - who are healthy and highly educated - are more likely to engage in harmful meddling... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2015 DEBATE -
The Disappearing Homes Conundrum.
From City AM, in amongst the usual Home-Owner-Ist drivel we would expect: For the economy, [restricting relief for BTL mortgage interest] would be a disaster. Read more
Posted on 24 July 2015 DEBATE -
Stop Moaning and Give Us All Your Money, You Peasants.
From yesterday's City AM: By Paul Stanworth, managing director of Legal General Capital, founded in 2013 to help actively invest Legal General's Group... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2015 DEBATE