Markwadsworth

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• The Interview

  From the BBC President Barack Obama has vowed a US response after North Korea's alleged cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. The US leader also said the studio "made ... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 DEBATE

• Life Copies Satire

  From The Onion, October 1998: Morbidly obese man enjoys disabled privileges with motorized cart Sixteen years later, from The Daily Mail, December 2014:... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Oil Price and Xmas Quiz

  The responses to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How low will the price of a barrel of oil fall over the next year? Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 DEBATE

• Forget Cuba, It Flushed Itself Down the Toilet Three Years Ago.

  Further to Stigler's post of earlier, from The Daily Mail, March 2012: The purchasing and selling of private property was legalised by President Raul Castro in... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 DEBATE

• Cuba - Some Thoughts

  just thinking aloud, not sure what of this makes sense... It seems for a while that Fidel's brother, Raul, is a lot less wedded to the idea of Communism, doesn'... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 DEBATE

• Boris, You Spendthrift Twat, Here's How It Should Be Done.

  From snipelondon/scoop: Just four regular commuters are now using the Emirates Air Line cable car between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, down from 16... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 DEBATE

• More Mansion Tax Double Think

  As reported in The Times this week by economics and property correspondent Kathryn Hopkins, " Young professionals in London could experience large rises in thei... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 DEBATE

• The Most Interesting Bit in Russell Brand's TV Programme About Drugs.

  In case you missed it, see reasonably fair write up in The Telegraph. The revealing bit was when RB was in a cafe interviewing too women who were full-on... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 DEBATE

• Movie Violence

  From The Telegraph Children’s films are rife with murder and mayhem and can contain more violence than gory gangster shoot-em-ups like Pulp Fiction,... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 DEBATE

• More Internecine Bickering Re Town Planning

  DBC Reed has spoken, here: "Well that's telling you, Frank Lloyd Wright and Fred Pooley: just have big densities in the middle than spread out as you go out a... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 DEBATE

• Weasel Words of the Week (2) - Mis-selling

  Mis-selling The Stigler reminded me of this one in a response to a previous WWotW. This is probably my pet hate of all Weasel Words. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 DEBATE

• Unsurprising Headline Of The Day

  From The Daily Mail: Taxi company Uber's low-cost carpooling service, UberPOP, is set to be banned in France from January next year, the government said. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 DEBATE

• Idiot Headline Of The Day

  From The Daily Mail: British households will throw away the equivalent of 4.2 million dinners on Christmas Day, according to research. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 DEBATE

• "Yossarian Recognized the Shot"

  From Catch 22: [Yossarian] heard a stealthy rustle of leaves on the other side of the sandbags and fired two quick rounds. Somebody fired back at him once, and... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 DEBATE

• Movie Review - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  The generally good reviews of the last Hobbit movie have prompted me to catch up on all the Hobbit films, the last one at the cinema. Here, I cover The Hobbit:... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 DEBATE

• Barriers to Entry

  Emailed in by MBK from The Sunday Times readers' letters: As architects, we can only get work with many of the housing associations if we take the risk of... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  It's not so much the content, that's all well-established and widely known, it's the fact that it was published in that most Home-Owner-Ist of rags, City AM... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 DEBATE

• So I Guess We're Not All Racists Now

  

  From Joseph Harker, 24th November Yet somehow, it seems, the British public has not taken Hamilton to heart. In 2008, when he seemed a shoo-in for the British... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 DEBATE

• The Invisible Hand, Car Parks, Town Planning and Urban Sprawl

  

  Four related topics which I will condense down to one post 1. The Invisible Hand Adam Smith coined the phrase The Invisible Hand to explain that markets do not... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 DEBATE

• Weasel Words of the Week (1)

  "Democratic Socialism" The implication of the phrase 'democratic socialism' is that the demos can have democracy as long as it has socialism. Democracy is a... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 DEBATE