Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• "Fears Housing Market Could Slow from Completely Insane to Utterly Absurd"

  The Daily Mash on top form: In August of this year, the average price of a two bedroom hole in South London was £450,000, but there are now fears this... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2015 DEBATE

• "Chief Constable Condemns Lack of Black Members of Conservative Cabinet"

  From the BBC: The Conservative cabinet does not represent the country it serves and must increase ethnic diversity, a chief constable has said. Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 DEBATE

• Selling England by the Pound (2)

  From City AM: It may be more at home ferrying workers across the capital - but now Transport for London (TfL) has announced plans to build homes, as well. In... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 DEBATE

• Pro-EU MPs Are Really Scraping the Barrel.

  From The Evening Standard: Pro-Europe MPs served the threat of a pricier pint a day after Tory eurosceptics claimed that chicken tikka masala would taste... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 DEBATE

• Benjamin Netanyahu Makes a Fair Point.

  Poor old Bibi was being wildly misquoted on the basis of the normal level of exaggeration you would expect from a politician playing to a particular gallery. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 DEBATE

• Highly Unusual to See These Three Sources Saying Much the Same Thing on the...

  From City AM, normally a huge supporter of the rent seekers and the practices referred to in The Guardian article below: The government is making its case for... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 DEBATE

• "What Does China Own in the UK?"

  

  The BBC article includes this handy chart: As you can plainly see, most of this is not 'investment' in the productive sense, they are just buying up pre-existin... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 DEBATE

• They Own Land! Give Them Money!

  From City AM: Calls for more properties to be built in London to slow rampant price growth are being partly answered. The capital is leading the way in the Buil... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 DEBATE

• "Pan" (2015 Film)

  From Wikipedia Peter (Levi Miller) is a small copper-bottomed cooking utensil who is left on the steps of an orphanage in London by his mother Mary (Amanda... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 DEBATE

• Microsoft Office and Walker's Crisps

  We all know that Walker's got it the wrong way round by making salt and vinegar crisps green and cheese and onion blue. We will have to live with that, even... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: The Tory Conference & Is It Racist?

  The results to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: The protests outside the Tory party conference were a bit inappropriate. Agree - 75% Disagree... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 DEBATE

• The Tax Shift: a Very Nuanced and Circular Calculation.

  BenJamin and I were discussing this thorny topic in the pub, i.e. if we taxed land/location values instead of earnings/profits, and ignoring the boost to the... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2015 DEBATE

• Marginal Seats

  This has also been added to the Quick Links in the sidebar, but a friend of mine that does various internet and computing stuff has created a website that... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2015 DEBATE

• Something Worth Haggling Over.

  From the BBC: EU states have approved an action plan for Turkey, which it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe. Nearly 600,000 migrants have reache... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 DEBATE

• Movie Review: Knocked Up

  

  I started watching this the other night and almost instantly felt like giving up on it. It's a film where a guy that looks like Seth Rogen:- but without the fam... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 DEBATE

• Because as We Well Know, Switzerland and Norway Are Teeming with Foreign...

  From the BBC: Fugitives across Europe will flock to the UK as a safe haven if it leaves the European Union because a series of laws and extradition agreements... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 DEBATE

• "The Charter Would Legally Prevent Future Governments From…"

  The most important rule in the UK constitution is that a Parliament cannot bind future Parliaments. This government can pass whatever laws it likes and future... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 DEBATE

• Legal and Economic Incidence of a Tax.

  From The Evening Standard: London homeowners are being forced to make dramatic price reductions to sell their properties as George Osborne’s stamp duty... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 DEBATE

• Von Thünen's Law Of Rent, Part the Manieth.

  From City AM: Professionals working in London are the poorest workers in Britain, despite earning the highest average salary, according to new research from... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 DEBATE

• This is What You Want, This is What You Get.

  City AM has long been a cheerleader for the One Per Cent, the landlords, land speculators and bankers etc, but it appears that london's businesses have finally... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 DEBATE