Markwadsworth

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• In a Perfect World There Would Be No Free Trade Agreements, Only Sanctions and...

  Implicit in the very notion of FTAs is the default assumption that national governments can and will block trade between their citizens/businesses and those in... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 DEBATE

• Feeble Arguments Against Brexit Continued...

  From the BBC: British football could be radically changed if the UK votes to leave the European Union, according to experts and leading voices in the game. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 DEBATE

• Pity the Poor Landowners.

  From The Guardian: Zac Goldsmith has promised to keep spending on London’s rail and roads while pushing up fares if elected mayor, in a transport manifesto... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2016 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: A Richer Africa Means Fewer Migrants

  As Flipchart Rick explained last year, the bulk of immigrants (who are all ultimately economic migrants*) to wealthier countries like the UK are from... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2016 DEBATE

• A Weak Argument Against Brexit is an Even Weaker Argument for Bremain.

  From the BBC: Britain would be unable to negotiate its exit from the EU within the two years allowed by European Union rules, the former Cabinet Secretary Lord... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2016 DEBATE

• Ranking Americas Industries by Profitability and Tax Rate

  

  Some interesting charts over at FTAlphaville Link (they might ask you to make one of those free accounts to read it and then mercilessly bombard you with pleas... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Taxes on Public Sector Wages

  We've done this one often enough, but here we go again. From the BBC: More than six million UK workers could find their take-home pay cut from April after the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 DEBATE

• Yes, I Know, the Torygraph Again, but It's Such Fertile Ground

  Exhibit A DT Letters SIR – Sir Tim Lankester misconceives the case for infrastructure developments: some may bring a commercial return, but many are justified b... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Cash is Still King & Bouncy Castles

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How many times have you paid with cash (coins and notes) in the last week (i.e. not by debit or... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 DEBATE

• Local Politics: the Huge Differences Between the Greens and the Conservatives

  From their local election leaflets: GREENS DEFEND GREEN BELT Councillor Steven Neville has won a concession as a result of the Green Belt Review, which is part... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 DEBATE

• Aaarrrggghhhh 2 - (but with Some Comment This Time)

  

  Here we go again ( (c) OKGO ) So, having made a series of flawed interventions, ZIPR, QE, encouraging banks to lend more, thinking that Keynes Paradox of... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 DEBATE

• Watership Down

  

  There's a few strange decisions that the BBFC have made. The End of the Affair being rated 18, for example. Or Gremlins as a 15. But none are quite so weird as... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 DEBATE

• Tesco Accused of Using Fictional Sounding Farm Names

  From the Telegraph Tesco has drawn criticism for using fictional British-sounding farm names on labelling for a range of meat and fresh produce, some of which i... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2016 DEBATE

• Executive Pay

  To continue with more of "the employer class outlook that is beginning to pervade this blog", here is Merryn Somerset Webb having a go at excessive top... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (388)

  Via Carol Wilcox, from the FT readers' letters: Mr Wolf suggests raising “green” taxes and taxes on economic rents (mainly land). Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2016 DEBATE

• Academies

  From the BBC The government could be forced to retreat on plans to compel every school in England to become an academy because of an emerging broad-based... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2016 DEBATE

• "Legal Services Sector Costs the UK Economy £25bn"

  From City AM: Legal eagles are taking a substantial chunk from the UK's bottom line, as the legal sector is now valued at over £25bn, a report out today ha... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2016 DEBATE

• "'Scapegoat of Hounslow' Can Be Extradited to the USA"

  From The Daily Mail: The British trader known as the 'Scapegoat of Hounslow' is set to be extradited to the US to face charges of multi-million-dollar fraud... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Sunday Opening Hours & Paying in Cash

  The responses to last week-and-a-half's Fun Online Poll were as follows: For how many hours should larger stores be allowed to open on Sundays? Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2016 DEBATE

• A Question?

  All anti-Conservatives always use the term 'Tories' for the Conservatives. It is used pejoratively. See here. It isn't really on to describe all members of the... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2016 DEBATE