Markwadsworth

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• Fun Online Polls: SLOPOTY & How to Minimise Flood Damage

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Sports Lack Of Personality Of The Year Award Andy Murray - 40% Tyson Fury - 16% Lewis Hamilton -... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 DEBATE

• As We Were Saying...

  From City AM's dedicated property porn magazine, Bespoke Living (page20), on the subject of derelict buildings in London: "Often the owners are not even... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 DEBATE

• Ted 2

  I watched Ted 2 yesterday with three of my children (aged between 13 and 26) and basically we laughed and giggled non-stop for the whole two hours. Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 DEBATE

• Feeble Arguments for Staying in the EU.

  Baldilocks, in The Telegraph: For me, there will be two other major factors, which have not yet featured much in the early jousting ahead of the referendum,... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2015 DEBATE

• Car Attacks Café

  From the BBC: A woman died and five people were hurt when a car ploughed into a coffee shop. The woman in her 70s was declared dead at the scene after the Audi... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2015 DEBATE

• Well, Duh

  From the BBC Afghan government forces have lost control of the centre of the town of Sangin in Helmand province after days of fierce fighting, reports suggest. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 DEBATE

• Top Tesco T-shirts & Silly Puns

  

  The wife and I did some pre-Xmas shopping today. The staff at Tesco were wearing T-shirts with the following slogan on the back: If there is anything we can do... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  Sent in by Carol Wilcox to the FT: Sir, I have just learned from a session of the House of Lords enquiry into the housing market that since 1951 the population... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Charity Spending & Sports Lack Of Personality Of The Year Award

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How much of their income do major UK charities actually spend on charitable causes? Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (382)

  Buried somewhere in the hundreds of pages of the Sottish Local Tax Commission's report and supporting schedules (I can't find it again) was a new one, the... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 DEBATE

• Teen Quiz

  My kids had their joint birthday party recently and it was my turn to do the quiz. As they are both teenagers, I did a multiple choice where the answers are... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (381)

  Via MBK from The Times: Scottish council tax reform will take years and hit middle earners A good start with putting the most negative possible spin on the... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Most Relevant Measure of Inequality & Charitable Spending

  The results to last week's Fun Online Polls were as follows: Which is the most relevant measure of poverty or inequality? Total income minus tax and housing... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Guardian: Declan Gaffney (Even in Finland, universal basic income is too good to be true, 10 December)* is right: a universal basic income, or citizen’... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 DEBATE

• The Longevity of Woolworth's Xmas Lights.

  From The Daily Mail, last week: These are Britain's oldest working Christmas fairy lights - which are so ancient the woman who bought them as a teen has now... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2015 DEBATE

• He Says That with a Straight Face and as If It Were A Good Thing.

  From City AM: Why the war on buy-to-let will make the UK housing crisis worse While the RLA is clear on the need for landlords not to take on mortgages that the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 DEBATE

• Half the Truth = a Complete Lie

  From City AM: Research conducted for the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has also shown that each tenancy in the private sector nets the Treasury in... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 DEBATE

• If They Were Just Preying on the Working Class, That Would Be Fine and Dandy...

  Via MBK, The Times on stomach churning top form: Runaway house prices are forcing hundreds of thousands of middle-class families into the hands of rogue... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 DEBATE

• Stretched Police Resources #2

  From the BBC Police are investigating an allegation of hate crime against world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury. Greater Manchester Police received a cal... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 DEBATE

• That's a Start, I Suppose...

  From The Guardian: The leading Labour moderate Tristram Hunt moved to reclaim the issue of inequality for his wing of the Labour party, calling for a property... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 DEBATE