Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• A Sensible Plan for Fixing the Banking System.

  From City AM Forum: Deposit insurance has been the most sacrosanct component of the regulatory regime for banks since it was widely introduced during the 1970s... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2016 DEBATE

• It Takes One to Know One...

  From the KPMG website: Fraud in the UK reached more than £732m in 2015, according to new analysis by KPMG. * Fraudsters target victims in financial distres... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 DEBATE

• Is the UK Going to Stay in the EU?

  Yes. Regardless of whether there is a Yes or a No vote (or Cameron bottles it and claims enough of a victory with his renegotiation). Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 DEBATE

• Stamp Duty Land Tax - Intended Or Unintended Consequences?

  From City AM: A new report has suggested billionaires may simply rent prime properties, rather than buying them - and potentially save millions of pounds. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 DEBATE

• Feeble Arguments for Staying in the EU.

  From yesterday's Evening Standard: Millions of pounds could be cut from flagship London projects if Britain leaves the EU, campaigners claim. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2016 DEBATE

• Polling

  From the BBC The failure of pollsters to forecast the outcome of the general election was largely due to "unrepresentative" poll samples, an inquiry has found. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2016 DEBATE

• … Thus Neatly Proving His Opponent's Point.

  Today's City AM Forum asked "Davos 2016: As the world’s elites ready themselves to attend, is the yearly meeting a complete waste of time? Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Moving Exams for Ramadan & Banning Donald Trump

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Changing the exam timetable to accommodate Ramadan: what do you think? Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 DEBATE

• Why Banning Diesel Makes No Economic Sense.

  I don't claim to understand fully the various steps in this train of thought, and I doubt that there's anybody who understands all of them fully, but here... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 DEBATE

• Mourning Our Greats

  This week we lost a couple of great creative people: Alan Rickman and David Bowie. Both huge figures in their field. Bowie, the theatrical, highly creative... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 DEBATE

• "Zac Goldsmith Giving up Luxuries for January"

  From The Evening Standard: Zac Goldsmith has joined the army of people who have given up a luxury to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2016 DEBATE

• Ricardo's Law of Rent/Wages, Part the Manieth.

  Via City AM, from Landbay's Rental Index, December 2015: Key findings * Average UK rents climb 3.8%, twice as fast as wages... Table 4: Top Ten 2015 Rental... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2016 DEBATE

• Great Diagonal Comparison.

  Via HPC Surivors, from MSN: In April, the UK government will enforce a new fee on all home insurance customers that will require them to subsidise the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2016 DEBATE

• I'm Not Really Buying This

  From the Daily Telegraph Patrick is a junior doctor, but he’s not some pimple-faced new medical school graduate. At 33, he is a neurosurgery registrar at a... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 DEBATE

• Often Problematic

  From the Daily Mail, Gary Lineker and his wife Danielle have split after six years of marriage amid claims that they disagreed over starting a family together. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Small Developers Need Finance to Buy Public Land.

  There was a nice advertorial in today's City AM: Hearing that the Prime Minister plans to open up public sector land for small-scale developments was a great wa... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Dry January & Moving Exams for Ramadan

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How will you respond to the new drinking guidelines? (choose all that apply) Selection I will... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: "North Sea Oil Faces Wipeout as Prices Keep on Plunging"

  From The Sunday Times: The primary culprit for this collective collapse is the oil price. Brent crude has plunged from $115 in the summer of 2014 to $33... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 DEBATE

• Ooh the Irony...

  Boris Johnson came up with another one of his self-aggrandising initiatives a while back, namely the 24-hour Tube service. Predictably enough, the trade unions... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day, And...

  DBC Reed alerts us to some pro-Citizen's Income letters in The Guardian, best of which was this: … In order to pay for basic income, the most logical change to... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 DEBATE