Markwadsworth

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• Blissex Nails It

  Blissex, in the comments to the second post on the question of whether people underestimate commuting costs when deciding whether to buy/rent somewhere small bu... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 DEBATE

• Avengers: Age of Adaline

  From imdb and imdb: After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program but things... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 DEBATE

• UKIP and The Election

  From the Daily Echo Ukip is well placed to replace Labour as the natural party of the north, its only MP has said. Douglas Carswell told the BBC Sunday... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 DEBATE

• "According to Economics..."

  James James in the comments here: "According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labour or on the housing market so... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 DEBATE

• No, People Are Not That Stupid

  Emailed in by MBK from The Times Ap Dijksterhuis, the Dutch psychologist, once famously conducted research which showed that people often underestimate the... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2015 DEBATE

• Vested Interest Letter of the Day

  

  As MW has successfully demonstrated, there is no taxpayer subsidy in council housing. Rents cover building and maintenance costs. This guy proposes means testin... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 DEBATE

• Nigel Farage on Top Form

  Emailed in by MBK from The Sunday Times: What aspect of the tax system would you change? I would scrap inheritance tax. The very rich don’t pay it, anyway. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 DEBATE

• City AM on Top Form

  1. Pub and restaurant group Greene King yesterday blamed recently tightened drink-driving laws in Scotland for flat sales. The company, whose brands include... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 DEBATE

• Readers' Letters Of The Day

  Both from The Guardian: • The latest Labour pledge to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers is not the policy it should adopt to help people to buy or... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 DEBATE

• Cars "Threaten Horse-riding Skills"

  From the BBC Horse-riding skills are under threat because of a growing reliance on cars, experts say. The Royal Institute of Horse Riding (RIHR) said... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 DEBATE

• Oxford University's Department of Economics Concurs.

  Emailed in by TBH, from page 29 of this: If one is interested in the spread of owner-occupation per se, it is necessary to consider not only the two million plu... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Evening Standard, page 57: The arguments against rent caps ignore all the hard evidence. For most of the twentieth century, the UK had quite strict ren... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 DEBATE

• Life Copies Satire

  The Daily Mash, 21 November 2014: TACTICAL voters no longer have any idea who they are meant to be voting for or who they are trying to keep out, they have... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 DEBATE

• Labour-Conservative 'grand Coalition' Negotiations Progressing Smoothly.

  From The Daily Mail: David Cameron today announces a Tory promise not to increase VAT, income tax or national insurance over the next five years. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 DEBATE

• Simon Jenkins on Top Form

  From the Evening Standard: I visited Brixton as a young reporter, to witness old residents fighting landlords who were winkling them out in order to turn their... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 DEBATE

• Apprenticeships

  There's a lot of talk about apprenticeships out there. They're the sort of thing that sound like a great idea. You know, the sort of thing where a young lad or... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 DEBATE

• The New Indian Bicycle Meme: Doing X to Fund Y

  The Tories have taken this pre-election silliness to new levels today: A Conservative government would use fines imposed on Deutsche Bank for its involvement... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 DEBATE

• Moneyweek on Top Form

  John Stepek nails it here, summing up Labour's latest bright idea, rent controls, and the government's (of whatever hue) attitude to house (land) prices... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 DEBATE

• Nigel Farage on Top Form

  From the BBC: Nigel Farage says he is "really rather bored" with the media's "obsession" that depicts UKIP as a racist party. Shadow business secretary Chuka... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 DEBATE

• More Serendipity

  Before I start I want to make it plain that I am not having a pop at anyone in particular I am though at having a pop at prejudice, received wisdom and those... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 DEBATE