Markwadsworth

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• UKIP Must Be Laughing Themselves Silly Over This...

  From The Electoral Commission: The Electoral Commission has today (8 January) removed the British National Party (BNP) from its register of political parties... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 DEBATE

• "UK House Price to Crash as Global Asset Prices Unravel"

  Via Hopmebuyers' Strike, from The Telegraph. The article is full of statistics on credit volume, the oil price, share prices etc and other relevant background. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 DEBATE

• The London Green Party's "fair Fares" Idea.

  This idea has some appeal: Our three key measures are: * the phased introduction of a flat fare structure, making zones a thing of the past, with the immediate... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 DEBATE

• Curries

  From the Standard Speaking to the Financial Times, Oli Khan, vice-president of the Bangladeshi Caterers’ Association said thousands of curry houses could shut... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 DEBATE

• Wrong Measurement

  From the Independent The Government is spending more money assessing whether people are fit to work than it is saving in reductions to the benefits bill, a... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 DEBATE

• The Professor's New Clothes

  There was some special pleading in City AM yesterday in an article titled Why financial markets matter for the real economy. His full paper his here. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 DEBATE

• More Feeble Arguments for Staying in the EU.

  Nick Clegg in yesterday's Evening Standard: ... this is exactly what the anti-EU campaigners claim: that we can merrily leave the EU, stop paying our dues,... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2016 DEBATE

• Torygraph Reports Common Sense on Business Rates

  Torygraph: Landlords bear brunt of rates rises, hurting wider UK economy Now if BR were converted to tax the land element only, the Northern Powerhouse would... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 DEBATE

• "Family of Murdered EastEnders Actress Demand Answers Over Delay in Finding...

  From The Evening Standard: The family of murdered EastEnders star Sian Blake today asked why it took so long to discover the bodies of the actress and her two... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 DEBATE

• "Live Well for Less About the Same"

  Ooh the delicious irony of it: BBC 22 December 2000: Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has sold its Homebase DIY chain in a two-fold deal worth £969m. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 DEBATE

• Well Done Everybody Who Guessed the Oil Price Would Be $40/barrel in December...

  The price of a barrel of crude oil had fallen from well over $100 in June 2014 to £70 at the start of December 2014, so I ran a Fun Online Poll in... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Evening Standard: THE Government abuse of the word "affordable" knows no bounds. Describing starter homes, which will cost up to £450,000 in... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 DEBATE

• "Slowdown in Chinese Manufacturing Raises Worries About Basic Numeracy Skills"

  From The Guardian: Against the backdrop of a faltering global economy, turmoil in the country’s stock markets and overcapacity in factories, Chinese economic... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Floods & Dry January

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What is the better way of minimising flood damage? Scrap subsidies for upland deforestation and allo... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 DEBATE

• "Pubs Prepare to Be Hit by 'normal' January as Millions Unlikely to Give up...

  From The Daily Mail: Pubs have described this month's proposed 'dry January' as 'fairly normal' for the industry, as none of the more than two million drinkers... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 DEBATE

• Good Kitchen Design (5)

  

  Continuing my occasional series… Image from here: Today's topic is "doors or drawers" and which of those makes stuff easier to find. Clearly, for the eye level... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 DEBATE

• Fun with Conspiracy Theorists

  

  The nutters (who overlap with Faux Libertarians to some degree) are making it easy for the Illuminati (or whichever shadowy organisation is ruling the world thi... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 DEBATE

• Good Work by Shelter on Land Banking.

  Somebody at Shelter has trawled through the accounts of all the large land bankers home builders and confirmed what we had already guesstimated. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 DEBATE

• Quote Of The Year 2015

  AK Haart has posted his favourite, so here's mine. From the BBC: Mr Carswell said UKIP "needs to change gear and to change its management if it's to go the... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 DEBATE

• Life Sadly Not Copying Satire.

  From The Daily Mash 13 November 2015: MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy has reassured fans that he is eternal and will never die. Following the sad death of the... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 DEBATE