Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• How Can You Have a 'free Trade' Deal?

  In polite conversation with Mr DBCR on here and with one of my cousins it struck me that the very idea of a 'free trade deal' is nonsense. Trade is free, end of. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 DEBATE

• Cuts

  From The Guardian The three councils that have suffered the least from cuts in George Osborne’s controversial budget are represented by Tory cabinet ministers, ... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (391)

  To a Guardian article about the Housing Bill, Ben Jamin pointed out that this is not a "housing crisis", it is a "transfer of wealth crisis" and earned this... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Boarding Schools Get It!

  Spotted by MBK in Herald Scotland: BOARDING schools could be hit hard by a UK exit from the European Union, campaigners have warned. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2016 DEBATE

• Giles Fraser on Top Form.

  Spotted by TBH in The Guardian: The common agricultural policy takes from the poor and gives to the rich. Its effects can be felt in every British household, an... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2016 DEBATE

• "Prisoners' Human Rights Violated, Norway Court Rules"

  From The Guardian: Norway has violated the human rights of other inmates by forcing them to share a wing with the rightwing extremist Anders Breivik, thereby... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Mother and Baby Get It!

  From The Royal College of Midwives: As a union the RCM argues that being part of the EU has led to better working conditions, and will ensure these remain in... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Museum Gets It!

  Emailed in by MBK, from Museums Organisation: The artistic director of the Southbank Centre, London, said that leaving the EU would be harmful for museums. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter of the Day

  From yesterday's Evening Standard: It seems that the British Property Federation is salivating at the concept of "build to rent" (Letters, April 18) and... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 DEBATE

• No Pleasing Some People

  from The Guardian To African Americans, Harriet Tubman was our Moses, guiding the enslaved to freedom by faith and the light of the North Star. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 DEBATE

• What I Find Very Annoying is the Lying...

  Here. "Government blames unemployment rise on BREXIT fears." So, nothing to do with the introduction of the Living Wage and employers compulsory pension auto... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2016 DEBATE

• Car Hits House Story - with House Price Bonus.

  Spotted by MBK in The Daily Mail: A groom who rented a £240,000 Ferrari for his wedding was lucky to escape unhurt after crashing it into a friend's front... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Panama Papers & Privatising the Land Registry

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Have you learned anything new from The Panama Papers? Yes - I didn't realise how concentrated... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 DEBATE

• Tax Incidence - the 3% Extra SDLT on Purchases by Landlords

  As announced several months ago, there is now an extra 3% SDLT to pay if you buy a home which you want to rent out. Landlords are buying for the rental income,... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2016 DEBATE

• Cattle! Sex! Cars!

  Spotted by James Higham in The Daily Mail: A car on the opposite side of the road slows for one of the meandering animals but the driver on the right believes... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2016 DEBATE

• Serendipity Strikes. Yet Again!

  

  I have been idling about listening to Milton Friedman's Free to Choose series on Youtube. Yetserday and today it was this one: Checking my emails after that... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2016 DEBATE

• Trade Unions, Productivity and Wages: Cause Or Effect?

  PaulC156 left some interesting comments on an earlier post, to wit: 1. Stagnant median hourly pay in the US over the last few decades coincides nicely with the... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2016 DEBATE

• Typical. You Wait Wages for Another "bus Hits Bridge" Story...

  ... and then two come along at once. Daily Mail 1 April 2016: Six people reportedly received minor injuries after a bus crashed into a railway bridge in... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 DEBATE

• "Teacher Catapulted to Death by Cow in Front of Her Grandchildren"

  Via Julia M, from The Daily Mail: A family walk in the countryside turned to horror when a grandmother was killed by a cow that charged towards her. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 DEBATE

• Tipping

  From Jay Rayner in the Guardian The naysayers argue that without tips we have no way of showing our approval or disapproval. Not true. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 DEBATE