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• Economic Myths: Why Younger People Can't Afford Houses Any More.

  Exhibit Onw, via HPC Survivors (I doubt whether that link will work) from The Cornishman, an article about the ludicrous house-price-to-earnings ratio in the... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 DEBATE

• "BBC Apologises for Jimmy Savile's Entire Broadcasting Career"

  From the BBC: The BBC has apologised for airing hundreds of television and radio programmes between 1968 and 1994 in which disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile featured... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 DEBATE

• Can Anybody Else Spot the Obvious Flaw in Their Strategy?

  From The Mirror: A “jokey” comic book strip called Hipster Hitler which portrays the Nazi leader as a trendy geek has been slammed by Jewish activists. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 DEBATE

• "Blazer at Former St James Primary School in Renfrew"

  From the BBC: About 70 fashion police have tackled a man wearing a blazer at a former primary school in Renfrewshire. Crews were called to the former St James... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 DEBATE

• Tony the Soccer Hooligan

  From the Telegraph Tony "Tone" Blair has said that Bazzer and Dave should listen, "just *listen*, yeah, because we can farkin' 'ave these boys from the ISIS... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 DEBATE

• Shale Fracking Is a “Ponzi Scheme”

  So says Washington's Blog. Who's losing out? A review of more than 9,000 wells, using data from 2003 to 2009, shows that — based on widely used industry... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 DEBATE

• Fun with The Famous Five

  My little girl brought home some Famous Five books from the school library. I quite liked reading them as a child, so I read a few again to see if they as bad a... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 DEBATE

• "Dad Complains After Daughter's Talking Doll Blurts out Innocuous Phrases... "

  From The Daily Mail: Mark Wadsworth couldn't believe his ears when his daughter's Barbie doll started speaking with language completely appropriate for children. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 DEBATE

• Cow 1: Astra 0

  

  Spotted by Steven_L on Facebook: Mr Mills explains "Cow 1 astra 0 looks like I need a new motor after all... Fukin hard cow tho went over my car then a van... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 DEBATE

• "Growth of the Turn-up Hits Jeans Industry"

  From The Telegraph: Once shunned by fashionistas as less than de rigueur, turned-up jeans now have the endorsement of hipster and celebrity alike. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: The Jonah Effect & Exploding Pavements

  The result in last week's Fun Online Poll was as follows: Gordon Brown started speaking out against Scottish independence and support for independence surged... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (336, 337)

  I was given the opportunity to wheel out my usual talk recently i.e. we could replace a whole load of 'regressive', 'progressive'* and downright fiddly taxes... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 DEBATE

• "Apple Releases U2 Removal Tool"

  From the BBC: Apple has released a tool to remove all U2 music from its customers' iTunes accounts six days after giving away the latest U2 album for free. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Scottish Independence.

  From the Daily Record: A leading property website has broken its silence about the potential break-up of the United Kingdom by warning Scots that Scottish... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 DEBATE

• Readers' Letters of the Day

  From today's Metro: When Alex Salmond first went to Downing Street to discuss the questions on the ballot paper with David Cameron, he wanted Yes/No and devo ma... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 DEBATE

• Head of the Windsor Family

  From the Telegraph The Queen has broken her silence about the potential break-up of the United Kingdom by warning Scots to think “very carefully about the... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 DEBATE

• Phones4U

  From the Telegraph EE, which is understood to account for around half of Phones 4U’s £1bn sales, made its decision after a strategic review. Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 DEBATE

• Scottish Independence and Business

  There's quite a lot of talk going around about how businesses that are nervous about independence are scaremongering, bullied into it etc. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 DEBATE

• Why Does It Depend on Who Came First?

  

  Interesting story in The Daily Mail: When Gerard and Christina White moved into their home 37 years ago, they felt the leafy street of detached properties was... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Victorian Railways Were Private Enterprise

  Sobers repeats the Faux Lib myth: The State did indeed build the M4, but the growth of Swindon was driven entirely by the building of the railway works by... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2014 DEBATE