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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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Fixed Term Parliaments - They Didn't Think It Through Properly.
Before everybody drifts off topic in the comments, as a general rule, I'm all in favour of fixed term governments, most other civilised countries seem to have... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2015 DEBATE -
"Methadone Programme 'is a Black Hole', Says Drug Misuse Professor"
From the BBC: The methadone programme in Scotland is "out of control", an expert has warned. Prof Neil McKeganey, from the Centre for Drug Misuse Research,... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2015 DEBATE -
Readers' Letter Of The Day
Nominated by DBC Reed from The Guardian: Austerity policies have failed everyone but the super-rich, bankers and landlords who have benefited from the... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2015 DEBATE -
Rent Seekers Vs Rent Seekers (2)
From The Evening Standard: The British film industry is being squeezed by Hollywood blockbusters and “high-end” TV series taking advantage of tax breaks, a movi... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2015 DEBATE -
Rent Seekers Vs Rent Seekers
From The Telegraph: Farmers face a threat to hundreds of millions of pounds in extra income from their land, as mobile operators mount a campaign to slash the... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2015 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: The CPI Shopping Basket & Your Favourite Season
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Which of the following were just added to the CPI 'shopping basket' (multiple answers allowed)? Read more
Posted on 23 March 2015 DEBATE -
There's Lessons in This - Somewhere
Here. First, he gets done for making a lot of money out of the risk premium made available by the State by it criminalising one set of recreational drugs. Read more
Posted on 22 March 2015 DEBATE -
Protectionism
From Buzzfeed: 2U offers small class sizes and technology that allows interactive courses to be conducted live online. Its degrees cost exactly as much as they... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2015 DEBATE -
Spending Targets
From the Telegraph More than two thirds of Britain’s aid budget is being given to organisations such as the EU and the World Bank to help meet official... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2015 DEBATE -
Daily Mail on Top Form
From The Daily Mail: * Jamila and Jalila Henry, 21, are identical twin sisters from south London * Convert Jamila has been caught travelling to Syria on her... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2015 DEBATE -
UKIP Fun, UKIP Fun - This One Will Run and Run.
I set up a Fun Online Poll last year, results as follows: How many of UKIP's 24 MEPs will leave the party by 2019? None - 18% 1 to 3 - 30% 4 to 6 - 14% 6 to 9... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2015 DEBATE -
Budget Fun
The most stomach churning part of yesterday's Budget speech was the Indian Bicycle Marketing at the beginning, suggesting that Labour was the party of high... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2015 DEBATE -
Ricardo's Law of Rent, Sort Of.
The Homeys don't really deny any of this, they just see land as an 'investment opportunity' rather than 'privately collected tax' or 'private appropriation of... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2015 DEBATE -
That Was Then, This is Now.
BBC, December 2013: The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has urged the UK government to abolish the automatic annual increase in duty on wines and spirits. Read more
Posted on 18 March 2015 DEBATE -
He is Starting to Get It.
Philip Booth of the IEA in today's City AM: Some Conservatives are currently pushing plans to increase the amount of an estate which will be exempt from... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2015 DEBATE -
1970s Style Policing
From the BBC: A former detective has said three investigations into Cyril Smith sex abuse allegations were stopped. Retired Det Sgt Jack Tasker, who served... Read more
Posted on 17 March 2015 DEBATE -
Life Copies Satire
Daily Mash, 10 February 2015: RAPPER Kayne West has quit the music industry to devote all his energy to twattish behaviour. He said: “I am at a point in my... Read more
Posted on 17 March 2015 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Grammar Schools
The results to last week's poll are as follows: Do you support the idea of selective state grammar schools? Yes 87% No 13% Thank you to everybody who took part... Read more
Posted on 17 March 2015 DEBATE -
Location, Location And, Er, Condition
In some cities oop north, houses are being sold for as little as £1, on condition that the buyers repair them and then lives in them for five years. Read more
Posted on 16 March 2015 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: I Can Remember When Mortgage Interest Rates Were 15 Per Cent...
This is another one which the Baby Boomers like to pull out of the bag, sub-text: todays' first time buyers have never had it so good; high house prices are... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2015 DEBATE