Markwadsworth

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• Economic Myths: Increases in Housing Supply Push Down Prices

  

  The simplistic view is that if we allowed more houses to be built, prices would come down. One of the fatal flaws in this theory - apart from there being no rea... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 DEBATE

• The Statue of Sekhemka

  From the BBC A 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue expected to raise about £6m has sold for £15.76m at Christie's of London. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2014 DEBATE

• Film Review: Now You See Me

  Brief review: I did, and I wouldn't again. Longer review: A smug, ludicrous film full of the sort of overcomplicated tricks that you could never pull off. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 DEBATE

• "Teachers-to-troops Scheme Attracts 102 Recruits"

  From the BBC: A £2m scheme to fast-track ex-teachers to the frontline has sent 41 trainees to England's army bases in its first year. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 DEBATE

• Great Bit of Satire in The Daily Mail

  From The Daily Mail: Women handball players in Spain are up in arms over a ‘sexist’ rule that stipulates that their midriffs must be exposed while playing on... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Metro, page 18, short and sweet: Linda, you ask why MPs aren't fussed about the privatisation of public services - they're on the boards of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 DEBATE

• BFI Puts Diversity at Heart of Funding Decision-making

  From Televisual The BFI has adopted a new ‘three ticks’ approach to film funding to ensure productions meet diversity targets. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 DEBATE

• "Population of EU Member States Has Soared by a Quarter to 507 Million..."

  From The Daily Mail: ... since 1960" FFS. Stick it in Excel =(507/407)^(1/53)-1 = 0.42% annual growth. Jeez. By world standards, that is actually stagnating at... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 DEBATE

• Film Review: Rush

  Many years ago, I was into F1 Grand Prix racing and got involved in crowd marshalling. And my memory of that is getting a headache because I forgot to put my... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 DEBATE

• No, It's Never Too Late.

  Emailed in by MBK from The Telegraph: Glancing down the list, published on this website today, of the multifarious tax breaks afforded to buy-to-let landlords i... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From the Evening Standard (8 July 2014, page 44): Tony Travers is absolutely right (July 7) - London's land wealth could easily generate the revenue to fund... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 DEBATE

• 3D Printers and Dildos

  From the Spectator Anyway, if I owned a dildo factory in Shenzhen, I’d be a worried man by now. And, totemic as they are, it’s not just dildos: all aspects of... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 DEBATE

• Boot on the Other Foot

  From the TelegraphColin Hart, chief executive of the Christian Institute, said: “This is a sign of things to come exactly as we predicted. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 DEBATE

• "Cambridge Five Drunkards Were 'hopeless Spies'"

  From the BBC: Members of the "Cambridge Five" alcoholics ring were seen by local publicans as hopeless spies incapable of gathering or keeping secrets,... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 DEBATE

• Tour De France Economics

  From John Redwood's Diary Some have written in to ask why I missed out the Tour de France from my list of English sporting events that have managed to project... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 DEBATE

• The Value People Place on Their Free Time.

  Emailed in by Lola from The Telegraph: Commuters who spend an hour-long train journey into London are saving around £380,000 on their average house price... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 DEBATE

• Eh?

  From the BBC The government should spend £1bn a year from the money it collects in fuel duty to fix potholes and crumbling roads, the body that represents... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (328)

  This one is copper-bottomed, titanium plated, liquid gold, with bar, a mention in despatches (or dispatches) and probably an aircraft carrier named after it,... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DEBATE

• Bad Investments

  From Bristol Post A BRISTOL woman who invested her life savings in a painting by disgraced celebrity Rolf Harris says she fears it has been devalued by up to... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DEBATE

• 'Mamading': The Complete Bollocks We All Just Made up

  From the Huffington Post and others: A one-off video of a tourist - believed to be a British girl - performing sex acts on more than 20 men in return for a... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DEBATE