Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• "Mother Does Not Say Sorry After Girl, 13, Finds Sexually Explicit Texts on...

  From The Manchester Evening News: A schoolgirl has not yet received an apology from her mother after she went to the newspaper to report that she had... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DEBATE

• ONS WAS, is Rubbish.

  As a follow on from the FT article on the Mansion Tax below, one of the other things it also brought to light is a dispute about the ONS methodology. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DEBATE

• More Fun with Poor Widows In Mansions (there Are Hardly Any)

  From the FT: Statisticians removed one of the obstacles to a mansion tax on Thursday, showing a very small number of poor British households lived in very... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 DEBATE

• Who Put Him in Charge?

  From today's FT: Sir, A point buried in “Scrambled signal” (July 1), your excellent analysis of Europe’s telecom market, should not pass without some comment.... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 DEBATE

• "Workers' Wages Peak at the Start of the Month, Says ONS"

  From the BBC: Workers' wages peak at the start of the month, official data shows, unlike the mid-1970s when people had most pay on a Friday. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 DEBATE

• Cow News

  From The Daily Mail: Badger culling plays only a ‘minor role’ in helping to control the spread of TB in cattle, a study has claimed. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 DEBATE

• MPs Attack Failure to Stop FGM as 'a Scandal'

  From the Standard The failure to prevent female genital mutilation in Britain will be condemned by MPs tomorrow as a “national scandal” that has led to thousand... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 DEBATE

• This Comes Under the Heading of 'WTF?"

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/02/tony-blair-advise-egypt-president-sisi-economic-reform You really couldn't make it up, could you. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 DEBATE

• More Fun with Mansion Tax...

  … in yesterday's Evening Standard, a fine, rich seam of KLN's… Labour's 'unfair' mansion tax will hit five London boroughs hardest, but palatial country homes... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 DEBATE

• Decomposing

  

  From the Guardian Judith Weir is to be appointed Master of the Queen's Music. Weir, 60, will be the first woman ever appointed to this role, which has existed... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 DEBATE

• Iraq and the EU

  Just a small thought:- It seems like Iraq has failed because it's an artificial construction of 3 tribes, forced together, initially by us, and later kept... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 DEBATE

• GPs Spotting Cancer

  From the BBC GPs with a poor record in spotting signs of cancer could be publicly named under new government plans. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants to... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 DEBATE

• Stupid Argument Against Merging Income Tax and National Insurance

  Via MBK, from The Times: Income tax and national insurance will be merged under plans being lined up as a key element of the next Conservative manifesto. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 DEBATE

• Flexible Working Laws

  Reading the Guardian's report of this, it all seems rather pointless The new rules do not alter the previous basis on which an employer is entitled to reject a... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Interest Rates and Penalties

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Will the Bank of England increase the base rate before the next General Election, and if so, when an... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 DEBATE

• Indian Pub Marketing

  The concept of Indian Bicycle Marketing - where competing suppliers with a very similar product market it in different ways to different people - doesn't just... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 DEBATE

• More Fun with Taxi Drivers

  Reader's letter from a recent FT: … Taxi service forms part of the transportation industry, long a regulated industry for the very purpose of providing the... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 DEBATE

• More Nonsense from Planet FS Regulation.

  I have been working with a new company who are raising development capital. One of their ways of doing this was to specifically create their stock in a manner... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 DEBATE

• "The Fault In Our Star Wars"

  From imdb and imdb: Part IV in George Lucas' epic, the film opens with a cancer support group being attacked by the tyrannical Darth Vader (David Prowse). Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 DEBATE

• "Afghanistan 'will Mirror Iraq', UK Army Officer Says"

  From the BBC: The most senior British Army officer in Afghanistan says he believes that country will follow Iraq into sectarian conflict when international... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 DEBATE