Markwadsworth

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• Sinkhole of the Week

  

  From The Daily Mail: A 100ft-wide sinkhole that is so deep the bottom cannot be seen at one end has appeared overnight just yards from a farmer's house in Count... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2014 DEBATE

• Why Does No-one Mention Ireland?

  The Scottish independence referendum is much in the news as we come up to the vote and one of the main weaknesses of the nationalists is their insistence that... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2014 DEBATE

• Something Else Which Really Annoys Me...

  

  … is the really poor grammar which the anti-smoking lobby uses. Exhibit A Wrong. Smoking is forbidden "on" these premises, not "in". Exhibit B Wrong again. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Global Warming Slowdown Could Last Another Decade"

  From the BBC: The hiatus in the rise in global temperatures could last for another 10 years, according to new research. Scientists have struggled to explain... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 DEBATE

• All Entirely Predictable, and Entirely Predictably Stupid.

  From the FT: In a dusty industrial estate next to the world’s biggest iron ore port in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region, business has never been so bad. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 DEBATE

• Please Sir, May We Have Some More?

  Reader's letter from today's City AM: [RE: Cameron unveils "family test" for government policy, Monday] David Cameron insists that families should be at the... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 DEBATE

• No Wonder the Country's in Trouble.

  From the BBC: Schools in England are braced for "volatile" GCSE results, following significant changes to the exam system. Go on, why's that then? Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 DEBATE

• Rabbit Hutch Homes. LVT Will Sort It Out.

  Under LVT, we are basically swapping out tax for land rent. As rents are based on affordability, the logical conclusion of this, is that State revenue becomes... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 DEBATE

• Hilarious Sinex/Optrex Mix-up with Interesting Results.

  I had developed a slight but very itchy stye in my left lower eyelid and my nose was rather bunged up, so I have a small squeezy bottle of Optrex eye-drops and ... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Gazza Conflict: Israel Targets Hammers Chief"

  From the BBC: West Ham football club say the wife and child of its main shareholder, David Sullivan, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 DEBATE

• Outbreak of Common Sense...

  … in Berlin. To sum up that article from Spiegel, the Berlin "Verwaltungsgericht", which translates as "administrative court" has told the Berlin "Landesamt"... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 DEBATE

• They Own Land! Give Them Money!

  From City AM: EUROZONE fruit and vegetable farmers hit by the Russian govern­ment’s food sanctions are set for a payout, with Brussels pledging €125m... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 DEBATE

• Public and Private Sector Residential Construction

  

  We have now established beyond reasonable doubt that the so-called home builders, Barratts, Taylor Wimpey and the like are nothing of the sort, see e.g. here an... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 DEBATE

• Seems Fair Enough to Me.

  From The Telegraph: Take two drivers: both have spotless records and the same car, which they park on their respective drives. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 DEBATE

• Oh No, We're Not Land Banking Or Anything Like That...

  From Bovis Homes' Interim Trading Statement: "The Group has also had its most successful half year of land investment acquiring around 4,600 high quality... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Mortgage Affordability

  Turnbull 2000 in the comments to the previous post: House prices to average salary is an obsolete benchmark. It has been for a decade. It's now about monthly... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 DEBATE

• UK House Prices Are Now About Seven Times Earnings

  Shaun Richards at Mindful Money has looked at Halifax' recent statistic that house prices are 5.02 time earnings... Putting it another way using median... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Berlin Bans Uber App Citing Protection of Taxi Driver Privileges"

  From the BBC: The mobile taxi app Uber has been banned in Berlin by the city's State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 DEBATE

• Jo Pavey

  From the BBC Forty-year-old Jo Pavey became the oldest woman ever to claim gold at a European Championships when she won a thrilling 10,000m and got Team GB's... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 DEBATE

• "Five Myths About the Gender Pay Gap"

  For a bit of light relief, I read an article at Comment Is Free: ... to make the pervasive myths slightly easier to debunk, here are five retorts. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 DEBATE