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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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Nobody Move Or Western Political Civilization Gets It!
Emailed in by View From The Solent, from Reuters: If Britons vote to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum it could be the beginning of the end for... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2016 DEBATE -
Tragedy of the Commons and the Laffer Curve of Planning.
"The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or House Building Gets It!
From the BBC Meanwhile some of Britain's largest developers have also urged voters to back Remain. House building companies and housing associations, including... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or Science Gets It!
From the BBC In a letter to the Daily Telegraph the group said science should be "front and centre in the EU debate" as it was a key driver in health, innovatio... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or the Angry Birds Get It!
From the Guardian As the home of titles such as Angry Birds and Clash of Clans, Finland is where many ambitious game developers – not just Finns – go to make... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or State Pensions, the NHS and the Armed Forces Gets It!
Dave flailing around desperately now. From the BBC: David Cameron has said the government might not be able to protect spending on pensions, the NHS and... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2016 DEBATE -
Mazda MX5 Mk2 Roadster Vs Toyota MR2 Mk 3 Roadster
Posted on 11 June 2016
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Nobody Move Or the Cornish Pasty Gets It!
... says View From The Solent, who spotted this in The Register: Any reader who's still undecided as to how to vote in the forthcoming, and increasingly tedious... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or Your Ice Cream Gets It!
Via MBK, from politico.eu: “Take one of our … products, Magnum,” Polman said, sending a (raspberry) ripple through the Brexit debate. “If you have trade... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or Your First Born Get It!
Far beyond parody, from The Evening Standard: Couples are delaying having children because of worries about the uncertainties of a Brexit, a senior London... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or the Exporters Get It!
From Sky News: British exporters are at risk of paying up to £5.6bn in duties if the UK votes Out, the head of the World Trade Organisation says. Read more
Posted on 08 June 2016 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (1)
Bill Bonner, the man behind Moneyweek, has a go at the idea of Citizen's Income: This is crazy! If you can earn $30,000 a year without working, it will be hard... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2016 DEBATE -
Silly Propaganda
It's things like this that give campaigns bad names. Following on from TS earlier post, it just shows how infantile things have become. It's not an argument, an... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2016 DEBATE -
The Sky is Falling In...!!
Elsewhere someone has said that Dave and Co. are running around telling everyone that the sky will be falling in if we don't for Remain. Ever heard of the... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or Northern Ireland Gets It!
Emailed in by MBK, from The Daily Express: The Chancellor, who kicks off a two-day Ulster visit today, will say unemployment in the region will skyrocket if... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2016 DEBATE -
Another Ill-informed Article Slagging off Citizen's Income
Spotted by Shiney Mart in The Economist (register for three free articles a month): An economy as rich as America’s could afford to pay citizens a basic income... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2016 DEBATE -
A Fascinating Insight into the In Campaign
I thought I'd share a personal insight, and one that I suspect isn't that uncommon. While many readers may know that I love wine, I am about quality rather... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or the Bankers' Bonuses Get It!
From the BBC: Mr Dimon said: "After a Brexit we cannot do it all here and we will have to start planning for that. I don't know if it means a thousand jobs,... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2016 DEBATE -
Nobody Move Or Your State Pension Gets It!
Emailed in by Lola, via Professional Pensions from NIESR: Our main conclusions are that reductions in immigration would have a negative impact on the public... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 DEBATE -
It is Easy to Rubbish Something If You Wilfully Misunderstand It
Spotted by ShineyMart, in article from FT: Yet simple arithmetic shows why these schemes cannot work. Decide what proportion of average income per head would... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2016 DEBATE
