Markwadsworth

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• Newsthump Nails the Gay Cake Story

  From Newsthump: Judge Johnson declared that not only were the bakers a pack of twats for denying the commission based on a person’s sexual orientation, but... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 DEBATE

• Investments

  Left-wingers love to talk about "investment" but rarely talk about what investments they want. I wrote on this before, but here's 2 ideas for government... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 DEBATE

• Michael Meacher's Excellent Summary of Indian Bicycle Marketing.

  I would disagree with his conclusions as to what the UK government 'should' be doing, but apart from that, his reader's letter is an excellent summary of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DEBATE

• Interesting Eurovision Hopeful (also, I Am Not Dead!)

  From the Telegraph Held this year in Vienna, Austria, the singing competition sees dozens of European countries battle it out for the coveted crown. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DEBATE

• So, Just How Inefficient is Local Authority Housing Administration?

  I can't find national statistics, so I will use the figures provided by my local council, which I guess is a reasonably good guide to the average. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DEBATE

• The Futility of R&D Tax Credits.

  From the official government statistics on R D tax credits: - The total amount of [R D tax credits paid or credited to companies] rose to £1.4 bn – an... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DEBATE

• I Wouldn't Deutsche Bank on It...

  From The Guardian: Deutsche Bank would consider whether to relocate some of its UK operations if Britain left the EU, according to reports. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DEBATE

• Cattle News

  Via JuliaM from Chronicle Live: Police shot dead an escaped cow following a massive operation involving armed officers and a helicopter. The beast was one of... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 DEBATE

• Oops! Redwood Lets Slip Flagship Tory Economic Policy...

  ...over at his blog, the Rt Hon. John Redwood MP has been busy deflecting criticism on his post about UK productivity. A few of his pesky readers have been... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DEBATE

• Irish Traveller Case

  From the Standard Today Judge John Hand QC ruled that members of the group had suffered discrimination and awarded them £3,000 damages each - a total of... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DEBATE

• "Warning Over Fake Make-up Which Contains Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog"

  From The Evening Standard: Disgusting ingredients such as eye of newt, toe of frog and even wool of bat have been found in fake make-up and perfume that is... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DEBATE

• "Some Motherfuckers Do 'Ave 'Em"

  From Wikipedia Some Motherfuckers Do 'Ave 'Em is a BBC television sitcom, written by Dizzee Rascal and starring MC Harvey and Lisa Maffia. It was first broadcas... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DEBATE

• That Tesco 'property' Write-down

  SG emailed in: "To what is [Tesco's massive reported loss] attributable (since land values are generally on the rise)? Is it mere accounting finesse? Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DEBATE

• New Labour Funding Plan

  As the unions are getting itchy about funding, this is the new plan:- Allow anyone to vote for the Labour leader for £3. Hundreds of thousands of... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DEBATE

• "Dog Walker Trampled by Cattle Escapes with Cuts and Bruises After Teenagers...

  From The Daily Mail: A dog walker who was trampled by a herd of cows says she owes her life to quick-thinking teenagers. Sharn Thomas, 59, spent two days in... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 DEBATE

• The Man Appears to Be an Idiot.

  

  From The Evening Standard: The Conservatives lost four seats in London because the city is “turning into Paris” with poorer people being pushed out from the... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 DEBATE

• Yet Another Gem

  From here An obvious solution would be for unions to reinvent themselves as service providers to their members as part of a reborn mutual movement for self-help. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 DEBATE

• Causation is Not Correlation

  The ConHome article (which Lola linked to recently to make a different point) says that there is a significant geographical overlap between 'former mining areas... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 DEBATE

• That Was Then, This is Now...

  A good article at the BBC about the history of Home-Owner-Ism: In 1966 the Conservative party manifesto made a promise. A Tory government would "get the houses... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 DEBATE

• More Not Seeing the Bleedin' Obvious

  Here. So this implicitly recognises that tax cuts boost economic activity. So why not extend that thought and cut taxes everywhere? Now we know that this is... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 DEBATE