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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Mystery Solved.
Anni Dewani's murder was the result of a tragic mix up! It was not her husband Shrien Dewani (left) who placed the order with the contract killers. Read more
Posted on 06 November 2014 DEBATE -
"Danny Alexander to Call for Fuel Price Cut"
From the BBC: Major petrol and diesel distributors are to be called on by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander to drop their prices further in light... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2014 DEBATE -
Life Copies Satire
From The Daily Mash, 20 March 2012: TAXPAYERS are to receive a detailed breakdown of how their money was spent that is indvidually tailored to their cretinous... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2014 DEBATE -
Finbarr Saunders is Now Working for City AM
From today's City AM (print edition page 3): Turkish delight as Yilsiz swallows United in record deal Turkish food and drinks giant Yildiz won the bidding war... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2014 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: EU Budget and Angela Merkel Throws Down the Gauntlet
The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How should the UK respond to the EU's demand for another GBP 1.7 billion? Read more
Posted on 03 November 2014 DEBATE -
BBC on Top Form
From the BBC: Germany is now the world's second most popular destination - after the US - for immigrants. And they are arriving in the hundreds of thousands... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2014 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (345)
Dinero, in the comments to #344: If you want a Tax that captures some of the rental value of UK land how about a tax on banks' motgage portfolios. It would the... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2014 DEBATE -
Don't Let the Door Hit You on The Way Out
From the Independent Comedian and TV presenter Griff Rhys Jones will “probably” move abroad and buy a “massive palace” if Labour wins the next general... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2014 DEBATE -
How Can You 'confess' to Something Which Isn't a Crime?
From The Daily Mail: The research found for more than one in seven British people a single glass of wine in the evening is not enough - and they regularly polis... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2014 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (344)
Here's an interesting bit of one-sided non-logic, from the BBC: A Labour council in London has rejected its party's policy on the "mansion tax", saying the plan... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2014 DEBATE -
Dilemna Or Dilemma?
The Stigler spells this the old-fashioned way, like I used to do, with a silent "n" (see previous post). This spelling has been proven to be and always have bee... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2014 DEBATE -
A Dilemna for Lefty Feminists
From the Mail on Sunday Feminist T-shirts proudly worn by Ed Miliband (bottom left), Harriet Harman (top left) and Nick Clegg (inset) are made in 'sweatshop'... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2014 DEBATE -
News from the Front Line.
Had the opportunity recently to go to a meeting with the FCA about 'whistleblowing'. They are engaged in implementing the recommendations made in the... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2014 DEBATE -
Aid and Democracy
From Counting Cats Well Doh! No shit Sherlock!! etc etc. We Kitty Counters could have told them that for virtually nothing. If you hand over large amounts of ou... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2014 DEBATE -
Air Passenger Duty and Rent Seeking
The rent-seekers have decided to keep up their attack on Air Passenger Duty, with the Faux Libs at City AM are happily regurgitating as Gospel truth: The... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2014 DEBATE -
Traffic Lights and Drugs
Oh dear, those pesky facts and real life evidence from other countries getting in the way of blind prejudice again... Exhibit One London Assembly Tory... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2014 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: Repayments of Principal and Interest
Banks are primarily balance sheet exercises. When they grant somebody a mortgage to buy land, they just 'split the zero' into an asset (the loan out) and a... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2014 DEBATE -
"Why is There So Much Support for the Marysville Shooter?"
Weird. There was a throwaway sentence in yesterday's Metro suggesting that this was happening, but I assumed it was a typo. Turns out it's true. Read more
Posted on 30 October 2014 DEBATE -
Holiday Photos
About twenty years ago, I decided that photograph albums were boring. Even worse is having to feign interest when somebody shows you theirs. Read more
Posted on 29 October 2014 DEBATE -
"Badgers Lose Court of Appeal Legal Battle"
From the BBC: Badgers have lost a legal battle at the Court of Appeal against being culled. The Badgers' Association had accused the government of letting the... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2014 DEBATE