Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Scottish Home-Owner-Ists on Top Form.

  From an article in The Guardian about Scotland's replacement for SDLT, known as "Land Buildings Transaction Tax", which is the same general (bad) concept as... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DEBATE

• Capital Gains Tax and the Laffer Curve

  The Lib Dem conference this year was a big disappointment. Instead of proposing that we all ride round on bicycles powered by moonbeams or women-only... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DEBATE

• Nigel Farage & Exodus 20:3

  Well done, Douglas Carswell in yesterday's by-election, but now comes the interesting bit and the reason why UKIP - with it's easily understandable manifesto*... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DEBATE

• "Australian Woman Safe After 17 Days Lost in Bush"

  From the BBC: An Australian woman has been found 17 days after she got lost in a bush in northern Queensland with no food. Shannon Leah Fraser stumbled out of... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 DEBATE

• Free Trade

  James Higham wrote about this at Orphans, there's no point me summarising you might as well pop over and read the whole thing but here's the flavour: And therei... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT. Not (340)

  Here's a heroic diagonal comparison from The Telegraph: Labour's mansion tax could leave pensioners facing death taxes worth almost half the value of their... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 DEBATE

• Capitalists, Landlords and Owner Occupiers

  There’s plenty of stuff in the news about getting rid of Business Rates, which chimes in with the standard fake-Capitalist arguments regarding LVT . That just... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 DEBATE

• "Human Universe"

  From the BBC: Human Universe with Professor Brian Cox tackles the most profound questions he has ever asked: Why is he here? How did the universe make him? Did... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DEBATE

• Education, Education

  Two articles, both stating the fairly obvious, but in a way, don't they cancel out? From King's College: Eva Krapohl, joint first author of the study, from the... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Exploding Pavements & Carnivorous Animals

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How many pavement explosions have there been in London in the last three years? Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 DEBATE

• "Women Still Do A Lot More Housework Than Men, Study Finds"

  From HuffPost: The poll for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour suggests that women spend an average of 11-and-a-half hours doing housework by their own estimation, whil... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 DEBATE

• Rather Pointless

  From the BBC A 63-year-old woman who was accused of targeting internet abuse at the family of Madeleine McCann has been found dead in a hotel. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 DEBATE

• End of Another Financial Scam?

  Merryn Somerset Webb in her blog, cites another case of a bank being forced by the courts to give up an attempt to charge a customer several hundred pounds for... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Machines Will Put Us All out of Work

  DBC Reed in the comments here: If you replace skilled workers with easy to operate machines, you reduce the amount of dosh in circulation ("demand") and end up... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 DEBATE

• "Uber Boss Travis Kalanick: I'm No Bully"

  From the BBC: The boss of the rapidly-expanding taxi service Uber has told the BBC he is not bullying local taxi firms and drivers. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 DEBATE

• "Drink Recommended to Help Cut Drug Dependence"

  From the BBC: Alcoholic beverages formulated to reduce drug consumption among anxiety sufferers look set to be recommended to NHS patients in England and Wales. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (339)

  I love it when I get an equal-and-opposite matching pair. A traditional KLN is "But it's a tax on gardens". Which is clearly isn't. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 DEBATE

• "Securing a Better Future"

  Whoever chose the slogans for the backdrop at the Tory party conference really was reaching out for the votes of people who are prejudiced, terrible at... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 DEBATE

• "'Raised Middle Finger' Tokyo Trader Makes £381bn Shares Gaffe"

  From The Evening Standard: Share trades worth more than the size of Sweden’s economy had to be cancelled in Tokyo today after what is believed to be the... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 DEBATE

• Unlikely Land Value Taxers: Boris Johnson

  From The Evening Standard: The proposed £3 billion extension to the Bakerloo Line can be built without cash handouts from the government, City Hall today a... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 DEBATE