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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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The Kingsmen: The Secret Service
From imdb.com and songlyrics.com Based upon, oh no, The acclaimed comic book, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Directed by, oh baby Matthew Vaughn. Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE -
Excess Winter Deaths: A Question of Definition.
From The Telegraph: The cold weather death toll this winter is expected to top 40,000, the highest number for 15 years. The figures were described as a... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE -
They (want To) Own Land - Give Them Money!
From City AM: A SCHEME that allows people renting property to take out an interest-free loan from their employer for their deposit is to be rolled out across th... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE -
The Daily Mash on Home-Owner-Ism (again)
From The Daily Mash: LONDON renters are hoping for enough snowfall to fashion their own crude igloo-style dwellings. 31-year-old teacher Emma Bradford said:... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE -
In Which Case, Ed Miliband is Far Brighter Than They Give Him Credit For...
From the BBC: The Daily Telegraph's] editorial accuses Labour of being "inexorably anti-business", arguing: "Occasional lip service has been paid to the power o... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 DEBATE -
The Daily Mash on Home-Owner-Ism
From The Daily Mash: LEADING a dull suburban life with a mortgage and two children is now a phenomenal achievement, everyone has agreed. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 DEBATE -
Pot. Kettle
Here As far as I am aware this bloke has done nothing in actual production ever. And now he is paid by me and you to be an 'opposition', yet organises his... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2015 DEBATE -
Selective Use of Data
From the Telegraph Public attitudes are changing in Germany - as well they might when a small city like the 180,000 population Saarbrücken can boast 100 brothel... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2015 DEBATE -
House Price Indices Vs Average House Prices: Another Little Mystery Solved.
What has always puzzled us is how HM Land Registry can confirm on the one hand that the average price paid for a home in the UK in December 2013 was... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 DEBATE -
To the Untrained Eye, It Would Appear That a Flat Costs More Than a Semi-detache...
From page 4 of HM Land Registry's December 2014 House Price Index (pdf): Average prices by property type (England and Wales) Detached - £279,298... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 DEBATE -
Pro Tip
From the Telegraph Thousands of Virgin Media broadband customers are being transferred to TalkTalk and will lose their virgin.net email address, a move that... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 DEBATE -
The Best Tax is One You Don't Have to Pay
From the same "Moneymorning" as the last post: Take the recently completed Vauxhall Tower by Vauxhall Bridge. It is Britain’s tallest residential building – 50... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 DEBATE -
This Could Be Interesting
In Moneymorning, Dominic Frisby writes: There are now 54,000 homes planned or under construction “in the priciest areas of the capital”. Most will cost “close t... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2015 DEBATE -
Tax-free... Apart from All the Tax He Paid.
Emailed in by MBK, The Guardian at its self-righteous best: Peter Mandelson received £400,000 tax-free in cash last year from a company he owns, accounts... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2015 DEBATE -
Pensions. (I Am Lost for Words)
I detailed a colleague to be our Auto-enrolment Guru. Here's his latest analysis. “Various Trade reports in the financial press, coupled with murmurings and... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2015 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Danish Kroner & TV Election Debates
The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How much longer will Denmark peg its currency to the Euro? Minutes - 3% Hours - 2% Days - 32% Weeks ... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2015 DEBATE -
The Bizarre Maths of Supermarket Price Wars.
We know that if supermarkets were simply to agree to charge the same prices, this would be an anti-competitive practice or collusion and against UK law... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2015 DEBATE -
KLN Bonanza
In the comments to an article entitled "Homeowners explore ways to avoid looming mansion tax in UK", KLNs abound. In particular, one Geoffrey Gardiner writes:... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2015 DEBATE -
I Was Surprised to See This in The Times
Emailed in by MBK. The first bit is boilerplate Homey: Labour’s proposal for a mansion tax, under which all properties above a market value of £2 million... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2015 DEBATE -
Class and Media
From the BBC Singer James Blunt has clashed with Labour politician Chris Bryant about diversity in the arts after the MP said the singer was part of a public... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2015 DEBATE