Markwadsworth

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• Cancer Treatment

  From the BBC A fundraising appeal is being launched in Wiltshire to help hundreds of radiotherapy patients receive treatment closer to home. The Great Western... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 DEBATE

• NIMBYs Of The Week

  

  Nominated by Steven L. From Chronicle Live: Up to 120 residents at Morpeth came out to show their opposition to plans for 280 new homes, a hotel, restaurant... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2015 DEBATE

• Back of a Fag Packet Statistics - How It Should Be Done.

  Proglodyte in the comments to If you're going to make up statistics, at least make up laudable ones: Comparing Greece, Finland and UK - Similar life... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2015 DEBATE

• If You're Going to Make up Statistics, at Least Make up Plausible Ones, You...

  From The Guardian: Fewer people aged 35 and over are dying in England because of their smoking habit, figures suggest, although hospital admissions linked to... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 DEBATE

• National Spelling Bee Ends in a Tie for the Second Year...

  ... as boy, 14, and girl, 13, spell tongue twisters 'scherenschnitte' and 'nunatak' with ease. ??? There are three e's in "scherenschnitte" but none in... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 DEBATE

• The Guardian at Its Unbiased Best.

  From Comment Is Free: The problem with referendums is that they can go horribly wrong. Ten years ago to the day, on 29 May 2005, France held a referendum over... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 DEBATE

• "BBC Uncovers 'aggressive' Tax Avoidance Scheme"

  From the BBC: Anderson Group, one of the recruitment industry's most high-profile companies, is promoting an "aggressive" tax avoidance scheme which experts... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 DEBATE

• We're All Going to Die.

  Leg Iron takes a critical look at one such announcement. Here's the other: Fruit snacks 'contain more sugar than sweets' Great! Then people who skip their... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From the Daily Mail A former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association. The 58-year-old is an advisor to the CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 DEBATE

• Chuka Umunna "might Pull out of Labour Leadership Again in the Future"

  From the BBC: Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has not ruled pulling out of the running to lead the Labour Party again in the future - but says he hopes... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 DEBATE

• England Test Selectors Back on Top Form

  Here are the names of the current England eleven: Cook Lyth(e) Balance Bell Root Ali Buttler Stokes Broad Anderson Wood For good measure, the ECB chairman is... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 DEBATE

• School Catchment Areas

  From the BBC The University of Birmingham School will have new buildings, a strong academic ethos and will benefit from links to the university and its staff an... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 DEBATE

• Price Rationing.

  From The Daily Mail: Tourism bosses have claimed that a ban term-time breaks is costing the holiday industry £87 million a year. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 DEBATE

• And STILL They Don't Get It...

  From here. "The favourite for the leadership even defined the word, saying that it was about “giving every single person the dream of a better life, about... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (359)

  Ian B, in the comments a few years ago here: … and then Mr Georgist Tax Assessor comes along, slaps a massive tax bill on the nature reserve or the rose... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2015 DEBATE

• Mad Max: Fury Road Trip

  From imdb.com and imdb.com: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, a group of... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 DEBATE

• Burger King's Rather Puzzling Pricing Policies.

  Yesterday I bought a "Bacon double cheese XL burger" meal*, which is £6.99, plus 60p to 'supersize' it, in other words get a few extra chips and a drinks... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 DEBATE

• Interest-ing.

  What puzzles me is that banks are adopting two diametrically opposed strategies regarding how much interest they pay on deposit balances. See e.g. This Is Money. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 DEBATE

• PR China Clearly Not Too Fussed About 'dangeous Sea Level Rises'.

  From The Guardian, November 2012: Sea-level rise is occurring much faster than scientists expected – exposing millions more Americans to the destructive floods... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: The Government Needs to Run a Deficit to Enable Private Saving.

  Caveat: I whole heartedly agree with the basic tenant of Modern Monetary Theory i.e. that there is no real direct link between government spending, taxation,... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 DEBATE