Markwadsworth

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• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (488)

  From the LVT group on Facebook, (H/T to John David Kromkowski) There are 2 farms next to each other. Same size. Farm A is a bit more fertile. So we can I think... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2021 DEBATE

• Greatest Motivational Speech of All Time

  I watched the "Black Friday" episode of Superstore* on Netflix yesterday. The staff all succumb to food poisoning and near the end of episode, half of them... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2021 DEBATE

• Because 2 + 2 = 5

  I'm done with making fun of Skeptical Science, it's shooting fish in a barrel, so I dipped my toe into Science of Doom again. That blog has scientific... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 DEBATE

• Originally Captioned Something Like - "so That's It for the Master Race Then?"

  

  I am having a major elctric spring clean today, and I found this:-This amuses me on so many levels. And before anyone goes on about me being 'anti- German',... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 DEBATE

• This Looks Like Good News to Me - the Article Contradicts the Headline. And...

  From the BBC: Lockdown looks to be having an impact on infection levels with the number of new cases starting to fall. But there are only tentative signs this... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2021 DEBATE

• Home-schooling and the Digital Divide

  From the BBC: Parents say they feel "deserted" having to home school during lockdown with a lack of access to computers... Bristol mother Edwina Ogu said home... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 DEBATE

• "The Kitchen Triangle"

  

  The fridge-hob-sink triangle is - supposedly - a key consideration when deciding a kitchen layout. Here are some examples from Wonderful Kitchens. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (487)

  As we come up to the big part 500 anniversary episode, here is an article which TBH spotted in The Daily Mail. It is an absolute classic of the Home-Owner-Ist... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 DEBATE

• Excellent Work by Fairer Share

  From The Sun: RISHI Sunak is facing calls to scrap council tax and stamp duty. Households would pay a single property levy under the plan backed by nearly... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2021 DEBATE

• Poor Widows In Mansions, Part the Manieth.

  From The Daily Mail: [UK Finance Minister] Rishi Sunak rejected a proposal for an emergency wealth tax to recover the staggering £280billion the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2021 DEBATE

• Not Comparing Like with Like

  From the BBC: Every year they stop an estimated two to three million deaths, preventing more than 20 life-threatening diseases, according to the World Health... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2021 DEBATE

• Clouding the Issue. And Mud in Your Eye.

  

  Here's an excellent article by Thayer Watkins explaining that clouds have a huge impact on temperatures and weather, many orders of magnitude greater than that... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 DEBATE

• "We Don't Have a Public Health Crisis, We Have a Public Healthcare Crisis..."

  Said Sobers in the comments here: ... The current alleged 'second wave' is nothing of the sort, its just the NHS being incapable to coping with winter demand... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2021 DEBATE

• Those Vaccination Priority Groups

  There's some interesting discussion about this on gov.uk. Broadly speaking, it makes sense to work backwards from the statistics on likelihood of death/serious... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2021 DEBATE

• This Should Be Interesting..

  According to Spareroom.com's poll, up to almost a half of London's tenants are looking to move out of London altogether, which, together with the cut in earning... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2021 DEBATE

• Weekly Deaths - England and Wales - That Was the Year That Was

  

  Data from the ONS. See also @Dr_RohenKapur. Total deaths in 2020 were about the same as in the 1990s. Yearly deaths fell to a low in 2011, and since then they... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2021 DEBATE

• "Netflix Raises UK Prices to Cover Cost of Content"

  The usual slightly weird reporting from the BBC: Netflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 DEBATE

• VAT Clusterf**k

  From the BBC: EU firms refuse UK deliveries over Brexit tax changes Good start. The articles mentions a few small businesses who can't be bothered at the moment... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2021 DEBATE

• One Small Step for Womankind and One Giant Leap for Mankind

  From the BBC: The 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the "tampon tax" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2021 DEBATE

• Yeah! Go Israel!

  From the BBC: Israel has given vaccinations against coronavirus to more than one million people, the highest rate in the world, as global immunisation efforts... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 DEBATE