Markwadsworth

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• Land Bankers Say the Funniest Things...

  From today's FT: Redrow has marked its 40th anniversary by reporting record sales and earnings on the back of pent-up demand released by the government’s Help t... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2014 DEBATE

• "Telephones Banned in Germany by Frankfurt Court"

  From the BBC: A court in Frankfurt has found that telephones are being used to arrange car-share agreements involving drivers lacking the necessary legal permit... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2014 DEBATE

• Greenies Don't Do Physics

  Once again, there is more evidence that Big Green and the Brussels bureaucrats acting at their behest don't understand the basics of physics. It started with th... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2014 DEBATE

• RyanAir's Tried and Tested Press Release Gets Its Annual Outing

  From Scotland Herald: RYANAIR chief Michael O'Leary warned Air Passenger Duty was strangling growth at Prestwick Airport as the airline unveiled plans to slash... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2014 DEBATE

• Exclusive - Proclaimers Could South If Scots Against Independence

  From Reuters and The Guardian The Proclaimers are considering having their home in Cornwall rather than Edinburgh should Scots vote against independence, pop... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Economic Recovery is Being Stunted by Problems in the Property...

  Via Pete Green at HPC Surivivors, from The Telegraph: Growth in Chinese manufacturing activity slowed in August, two closely watched surveys showed on Monday,... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 DEBATE

• "Middle Aged Man is Outraged at Being Told Computer Generated Image is Not...

  From The Daily Mail and The Daily Mail: News that Boris Island, a computer generated image of an airport, is not and will never be an airport has devastated... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Bank Holiday Weather; Bombing Raids on Iraq and Syria

  Apologies for blogging hiatus, we went on a last minute holiday to Legoland Billund, all good fun and very interesting from a town planning/land value... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 DEBATE

• I Am Getting Fed up with This...

  Some months ago I was done for speeding by a mobile camera van. Fair enough I was over the 'speed limit' (which in my sad old Kim's Game way I try very hard to... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: the Fungibility of Funding.

  Everyone who has not just returned from holiday in the Takla Makan desert must be aware of the Ice-bucket Challenge. As a fund raiser, it's been a brilliant... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Apple to Release iWatch"

  From The Evening Standard: Apple is to release a pioneering smartwatch when it unveils the new iPhone 6 next month, according to reports... The watch, which is... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 DEBATE

• Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don't.

  From the BBC: The UK is "deeply elitist" according to an analysis of the backgrounds of more than 4,000 business, political, media and public sector leaders. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 DEBATE

• Benefit Cap Fun

  From The Telegraph, June 2012: The Prime Minister was expected to unveil plans to set benefit payments on a regional basis during a speech in Kent today. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Cameron to Support Tusk for Council President at EU Summit"

  From EurActiv: British Prime Minister David Cameron is prepared to support Fleetwood Mac's double-platinum selling album as the next president of the European... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 DEBATE

• Yes, That's the Whole Point.

  From The Daily Mail: We eat THREE times more at a barbecue than at a normal dinner… A survey found we consume as many as 1,800 calories at a barbecue, while a... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 DEBATE

• Fair Play to ASH

  The WHO has gone completely mental... The World Health Organization says there should a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and that sales to children... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Elk Freed from Dresden Office Building"

  We haven't had one of these stories for ages, from thelocal.de: The elk, which has been spotted several times in the Dresden area during the weekend, had been... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Alcohol Health Warnings & Bank Holiday Weather

  The responses to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: A committee of MPs says that alcoholic drinks should carry health warnings. Do you agree? Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 DEBATE

• Economics. What is It Good For?

  Reading this and this got me thinking. If we think that we know all this stuff, the temptation - on the part of prodnoses - is to use it to interfere. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 DEBATE

• Going Down Bleating.

  An orgy of shroud waving in yesterday's Evening Standard, here are some of the punchlines: Londoners were asked if they thought they would have to “pay more”... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2014 DEBATE