Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Tee Hee.

  From The Daily Mail: A bizarre row between two councils over who should mow a playing field has led to only one half being trimmed - while the other half's gras... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 DEBATE

• Inside Out

  A made-for-children psychological horror-adventure yarn, from imdb, imdb, imdb and imdb: Thirty years after WW2, a team of former GIs and German soldiers... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT. Not (362)

  Posted by some complacent Faux Lib over at Reddit: I definitely understand that taxes are needed for the things we enjoy the use of, such as roads, hospitals,... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 DEBATE

• Completely Inconsistent Rulings on Christians and Homophobes.

  Case 1, bakery found to have broken anti-discrimination laws by refusing to bake a gay wedding cake. Case 2, employee sacked for homophobic remarks wins unfair... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2015 DEBATE

• Badly Designed Taxes, Part the Manieth.

  From City AM: HSBC moved a step closer to leaving the UK yesterday, piling pressure on chancellor George Osborne to take action to persuade the bank to stay... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2015 DEBATE

• Doesn't Really Tell You Much

  

  From the Telegraph In the latest blow to the troubled supermarket, Tesco ranked at the bottom of a list of eight grocery chains that included, in ascending... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 DEBATE

• Life Copies Satire

  From The Daily Mail: Paul Gascoigne reveals he used to get upset when he heard the Gaza Strip mentioned on the news - because he thought they were talking... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers: Building on Greenbelt Land Has Soared Over Five Years

  From the BBC: The number of new homes being approved on greenbelt land in England has increased five-fold in the last five years, according to figures obtained... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 DEBATE

• None So Blind as Those Who Will Not See.

  Din said, on the topic of new development tending to push up the price of existing homes, not down: I can see an issue with statistics that could affect the... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 DEBATE

• Er, No It Doesn't.

  From the BBC: Mohammed Shafiq is from The Ramadhan Foundation, an organisation which represents Muslims in Britain. He says: "In the end, if you make that choic... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 DEBATE

• "Building New Properties Doesn't Drive Down House Prices"

  From City AM: Building new properties doesn't drive down house prices, according to a study by the London School of Economics. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2015 DEBATE

• Hannah Eats Some Sweets: Easy

  From The Daily Mail: There are n sweets in a bag. Six of the sweets are orange. The rest of the sweets are yellow. Hannah takes a sweet from the bag. She eats... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (361)

  Two traditional KLNs can be dealt with in one fell swoop: 1. "If you tax something, you get less of it." 2. "Weak form LVT, i.e. rent/price controls, means... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2015 DEBATE

• "Beware of the Bison!"

  Hairy American cattle are getting in on the act, from The Daily Mail: Yellowstone National Park warns tourists after two are gored in a week * Pamphlet warns... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (360)

  There was another good (as in 'really bad') argument against LVT in this article in Forbes: I think a good comparison, and indeed a related phenomenon, is the... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  'Mary Poppins' nanny hired on Gumtree 'stole £171,000 worth of valuables from her investment banker boss Third bullet point: * Also accused of taking... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 DEBATE

• Like Home-Owner-Ism, but Without the Subtlety...

  Spotted by Random in The Guardian: Tony Abbott has brushed off the Treasury secretary’s comments about a housing bubble in Sydney by instead accusing Bill... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 DEBATE

• They Have Gone Stark Raving Mad (2)

  From the Scotsman In a stark overview of the nutritional value of pet snacks, a few products are shown to contain as many as 415 calories, more than a glazed... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 DEBATE

• They Have Gone Stark Raving Mad.

  Gleefully regurgitated by The Guardian: Office workers should spend a minimum of two hours on their feet at work – building up to an ideal four hours – in... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 DEBATE

• Jeremy Hunt on Top Form.

  From the BBC: ... the pay packets of some NHS senior managers will also be trimmed. Currently, more than a fifth of all directors in the NHS earn more than... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 DEBATE