Markwadsworth

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• Sneaky!

  From the BBC: Although Chancellor George Osborne abandoned cuts to tax credits in the Autumn, cuts to UC announced last summer will still go ahead. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 DEBATE

• Charities

  From The Sun BRITAIN’S biggest OAP charity has accepted £6million a year from an energy giant in return for pushing expensive tariffs to the elderly, The... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 DEBATE

• Child Benefit

  Over twenty years ago, my then wife threw a wobbly and went off back to Germany, taking our two little babies with her. The Child Benefit was being paid into ou... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2016 DEBATE

• Vote Buying? Who? Us?

  

  From yesterday's Evening Standard: GEORGE OSBORNE’S new Help to Buy London mortgage scheme could reduce first-time buyers’ monthly repayments by up to half, a... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 DEBATE

• "Britain's Top Doctor Asks Drinkers to Choose"

  From The Daily Mail: Britain's top doctor today reminded people that every time they have a drink, they are choosing to drown out her shrill incessant whining... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 DEBATE

• Sainsbury's Buy Argos

  From the BBC Sainsbury's has offered £1.3bn to win control of Argos owner Home Retail Group. After revealing earlier this month that an approach last year... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Donald Trump; Plastic Bags.

  The results to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll: Should Donald Trump be banned from coming to the UK? Yes - 5% No - 95% That's crystal clear, I would have... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 DEBATE

• "How Cows Are Taking Over the Internet"

  Spotted by James Higham at RT: Cows’ gaseous emissions are already blamed by many for spoiling the air and exacerbating global warming, but now bovines are... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 DEBATE

• They Don't Like Being Beaten at Their Own Game...

  From The Telegraph: Members of one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs have threatened legal action against their new foreign owners over plans to introduc... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 DEBATE

• The Holy Trinity of Blogging….

  … a sinkhole, cow news and a car crashing into a house. H/t, Dinero, from the BBC: A dual carriageway is to remain shut after a huge sinkhole opened up as a... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 DEBATE

• Ex-Chancellor Wants to Block a Tax Loophole by Creating Another One.

  From the BBC: Former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson told the Telegraph: "It is profoundly unsatisfactory that corporation tax has to be collected from larg... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 DEBATE

• Clever Scientist Understands and Explains Agglomeration...

  … but fails to draw the obvious conclusion. From the NY Times, h/t Pablo: In essence, they arrive at the sensible conclusion that cities are valuable because... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2016 DEBATE

• Tories Apply Common Sense to a Funding Issue...

  … but only for the little people in 'the regions': HOMEOWNERS* living in flood-hit areas could be forced to pay higher council tax adding insult to injury to... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2016 DEBATE

• Agglomeration

  Via @thomasforth, from Centre for Cities: When it comes to productivity, size isn’t everything – at least not in the UK. Unlike the US and Germany, there is no... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2016 DEBATE

• I've Been Predicting This for a Few Years

  From The BBC Apple has reported the slowest growth in iPhone sales since the product's 2007 launch and warned sales will fall for the first time later this year... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2016 DEBATE

• They Own Land! Give Them Money!

  Excellent number crunching by Joe Sarling: If a new Starter Home has a discounted value of £450,000 or less and [is bought by an] FTB is under the age of... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2016 DEBATE

• Great Film (and Free, Sortof)

  If you've got BBC iPlayer, there's a terrific film on there at the moment, a Norwegian film called Headhunters. It's about a recruitment headhunter who is also... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2016 DEBATE

• Ice Cream Shrinkage

  From the BBC Unilever, the multinational firm behind brands including Magnum and Cornetto, is to make all its ice creams aimed at adults smaller. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2016 DEBATE

• Please Sir, May We Have Some More?

  From City AM: Finally some good news: the FTSE 100 got off to a flying start this morning, gaining up to 1.8 per cent in early trading as dovish remarks from... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2016 DEBATE

• Typical, You Wait for Ages...

  

  … and ages and ages, and along comes another prime number. The largest known prime number is now almost five million digits longer than the previous... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2016 DEBATE