Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Evening Standard. The letter won't be viewable online for a couple of days, because for some reason it is updated two days in arrears, go figure, but... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 DEBATE

• Fun with Student Numbers

  From the BBC: More than a million young people will be enrolling in universities in England and Germany this autumn. But in financial terms their experience... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 DEBATE

• "Oil Tankers Swing Round the Cape to Create Profit"

  Emailed in by MBK from The Times: It is a treacherous route that mariners thought they had seen the back of when the Suez Canal opened a century and a half... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form Today

  Exhibit One A pensioner has suffered severe burns after a suspected gas explosion ripped the front off his house while he was sitting in an armchair in his... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 DEBATE

• People Value Things More If They Have to Pay for Them - Part the Manieth

  From the BBC: University drop-out rates fell sharply after tuition fees were increased, according to researchers. A report from Lancaster University Management... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: The Global Financial Crisis & Muslim Migrants

  

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What caused the global financial crisis which has seen the UK mired in recession for the last seven... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 DEBATE

• Edinburgh Fringe Festival

  From the Guardian The city’s festival is vast, exuberant and intoxicating – and a giddy opportunity for price gouging that almost every business in town takes... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 DEBATE

• The Dynamic 'cost' of Getting Rid of VAT Would Be a Lot Less Than Current VAT...

  

  Here's a simple diagram showing how VAT reduces economic activity (assuming a certain fixed level of costs) and sketching in the receipts from VAT (about... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 DEBATE

• "The Financial Crisis That Has Wiped $3 Trillion off Stock Markets"

  Headlines like this just remind us that share prices have little to do with the real, productive economy. If you are looking to invest in shares in the future,... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 DEBATE

• Paper Chinatowns

  From imdb and imdb: Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, the coming-of-age story centres on JJ 'Jake' Gittes, a sixteen-year old private... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2015 DEBATE

• "Young Goths at Risk of Depression"

  Somebody at the BBC has decided to have a go at writing an Onion style article. It's hilarious: In this study, researchers looked at 3,694 15-year-olds based... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (368)

  I was drafting a couple in my head, but then I saw this at the Facebook LVT page. Gemma Seymour knocks various Faux Lib, Homey and waffly Georgist assertions ou... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2015 DEBATE

• No Wonder Scottish Retailers Are Struggling...

  ... they don't do maths. From some some special pleading by the Scottish Retail Consortium aka Scottish Commercial Landlords Consortium: 3. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2015 DEBATE

• "Jeremy Corbyn Backs Women-only Public Toilets"

  From The Evening Standard: Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn would push for women-only public toilets to be introduced to curb sex attacks, he has... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 DEBATE

• Retailing - It's All About Location, Location, Location.

  From City AM: ... [Morrisons supermarkets] is paying the price for its scatter gun approach to buying convenience stores. Last week, it emerged Morrisons is... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 DEBATE

• Bradford's "Jesus Man", RIP.

  From The Daily Mail: For more than 50 years the ‘Jesus Man’ of Bradford walked the streets spreading good cheer wherever he went with a wave and a warm smile. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 DEBATE

• "Harman Vows to Weed out All Cheats"

  From the BBC: Harriet Harman has said 3,000 alleged "cheats" have so far been excluded from migrating to the UK, with more expected. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 DEBATE

• The Times Channels The Daily Mail

  Emailed in by MBK from The Times: A millionaire lawyer who jumped in front of a tube train was racked by guilt that she “hadn’t been a good enough mother”, an... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 DEBATE

• Land Banking Bullshit

  Spotted by JJ in The Estates Gazette: Let’s take an example. Berkeley Homes at Woodberry Down in Hackney. It has permission for around 5,000 homes. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Jeremy Corbyn & The Global Financial Crisis

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: You will/would you vote for as leader of the Labour Party? Jeremy Corbyn - he'll make Labour... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2015 DEBATE