Markwadsworth

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• Steamy Movie

  From the Telegraph A vintage railway operator has been branded "disgusting" after allowing a hardcore porn film to be shot on its historic train track. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 DEBATE

• Leader's Debate

  I didn't watch it. Apparantly Nicola Sturgeon did well, though, no doubt promising the Scots a pony for all based on some inflated numbers on oil prices, but... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Your Favourite Season & the Value of a Place in a Queue

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Which is your favourite season? Spring - 27% Summer - 36% Autumn - 33% Winter - 4% So, summer it i... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 DEBATE

• Zero-Hours Contracts

  Julia Hartley-Brewer in the Spectator:- And this is where we get to the truth. Because not only does an employer enjoy far lower bills for holiday and sick pay... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (357)

  MBK emailed in this one from Forbes to add to the collection: If you take an empty city block and fill it with dense, beautiful buildings, nice restaurants and... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Governments Don't Issue Currency.

  Dinero, having pointed out quite correctly that "There is no objective reason to give a special status to the government. That is political view not an... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: "The Purchasing Power of the Pound Has Fallen by 235 Times in a...

  On the face of it, this factoid trotted out by the gold bugs at MoneyWeek is quite true, it implies that average price inflation over the last hundred years... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 DEBATE

• Nigel Farage is Running out of Things to Blame on Immigration.

  From The Daily Telegraph: Britons are so ill at ease with levels of immigration in their towns that their children do not play football with their neighbours... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 DEBATE

• The Building Itself Probably Only Has Scrap Value.

  From The Daily Mail: A mansion on London's Billionaire's Row which was built by the owner of the Tate and Lyle sugar empire has sold for £25million - just ... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  Spotted by Pyotr Wasik (who I still assume is Flashman) in The Daily Mail: [Complete and utter bastard] Andreas Lubitz was signed off by two different doctors... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 DEBATE

• Still Alice In Wonderland

  From imdb and imdb: On a golden afternoon, Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor who is happily married with three grown children, follows a White... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 DEBATE

• "Computers, a Host of TV Channels and Smart Phones: The Simple Indoor Pleasures...

  From The Daily Mail: They are the traditional childhood pastimes which often see children spending hours safely in front of a screen instead of coming home... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 DEBATE

• Tories and Labour - Both Deliciously Wrong on Tax, as Usual.

  From City AM: Labour and the Conservatives will today lock horns over the levels of tax imposed on companies, as business takes centre stage in the fiercely... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 DEBATE

• Community Generated Land Values.

  All from today's Evening Standard: Exhibit One (no link) State schools in London risk becoming victims of their own success by pushing house prices up so high... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 DEBATE

• Three Cheers for Jeremy Hunt

  From The Daily Mail: A panel of scientific advisers had recommended in October 2013 that the vaccine should not be introduced as it was not deemed... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 DEBATE

• This is What You Want, This is What You Get.

  From yesterday's City AM: On 30 March when parliament is dissolved, as the majority of MPs will gear up to embark on the toughest part of their election... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 DEBATE

• Sterling: Still Not Overvalued

  

  Here's a chart of GBP vs a basket of other major currencies from 2009 onwards. Clearly, it fell rather dramatically for three years from late 2007 to 2010,... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 DEBATE

• What is It with the 'Rich'?

  On R4 Today yesterday there was an item on Virgin's launch of an Entrepreneur Prize. They had Branson talking about it / indulging in more self-promotion. Then... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 DEBATE

• Changing the Rules of Football. Slightly.

  From City AM: England's leading football clubs have left their loss-making ways behind and entered a new era of profitability after mustering record-breaking... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  Emailed in by David H, from yesterday's Evening Standard: Has anyone really looked at house prices and run any decent comparisons? Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 DEBATE