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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Well, Well
From The BBC: As many as 500,000 people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it, the... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 DEBATE -
English Deer Messes up Badly
Headline from The Daily Mail: Oh deer! Incredible pictures after animal jumps THROUGH the windshield of a tractor trailer truck and lands in the cab. "What's a... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 DEBATE -
"Wife Left in 'hysterics' After Receiving Letter from Council Saying Her Late...
From The Daily Mail: Bernadette Atkinson, 51, and the couple's son Karl arrived home to find the letter and no sign of her late husband Anthony. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 DEBATE -
"One in Three Adults in England 'on Cusp' of Diabetes"
Not far from the BBC: Almost more than a third of adults are on the cusp of developing type-2 diabetes, figures for England as good as show. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 DEBATE -
Outbreak of Commonsense...
... in Jamaica. From The Daily Mail: As the birth place of reggae music and the Rastafarian religious cult Jamaica has long been associated with cannabis. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls:
The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Of the 32 national teams at the FIFA World Cup, how many will end up disappointing their fans? Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 DEBATE -
Question on Pension Myths
Dinero asked as follows at Economic Myths: Pensions (various myths): Are you saying it is a financial error for anyone paying interest on a mortgage to... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 DEBATE -
Tee Hee
There was an article in today's Metro saying that "drunk casualty patients have less chance of suffering complications than those who are sober, reasearch has... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 DEBATE -
"First It Was Donkeys…"
No, not another variation on the Niemöller quote, but a cow attack story from The Daily Echo, emailed in by JuliaM: FIRST it was donkeys seeing the red mist(1)... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2014 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: Pensions (various Myths)
Allister Heath packed more myths, misunderstandings and downright lies into his wednesday article than usual, so let's pick out some of the worst: "BRITONS don’... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2014 DEBATE -
A Thought About "Going Out for a Drive"
Stephen Bayley is a bit of a nob and has written an article in the Guardian about why we no longer "go out for a drive". He talks about how roads are too full... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 DEBATE -
The Tattoo Problem
From the Daily Mail But after 18 years of wedded unity, Melanie Griffith has filed for divorce from 53-year-old Antonio Banderas, according to a Friday report... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 DEBATE -
Movies: D-Day Special
There's probably some other films out there about D-Day. You can tangentially include Where Eagles Dare where the mission is to rescue an army brigadeer before... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2014 DEBATE -
Post-It Notes and Other Stuff.
I'm at the Citizen's Income Trust all day conference today, so here's a few random thoughts to keep you going. 1. Post-It Notes I left a pad of small Post-It... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2014 DEBATE -
"Nigel Farage: I Can't Be a One-man Band"
From The Evening Standard: Nigel Farage admitted today that he will haemorrhage votes at the General Election next year unless he can transform himself into mor... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 DEBATE -
"Alex Salmond is Behaving Like Kim Jong-il, Says Alistair Darling"
From The Guardian: Alistair Darling has compared the behaviour of Alex Salmond to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and said thousands of "No" campaigners hav... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 DEBATE -
Most Fun with Plastic Bags
As long as he's not talking about land, Allister Heath digs up some good stuff: Taxing plastic bags isn’t as significant, of course, and some large chains... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 DEBATE -
"Heathrow Airport's New Terminator 2 Opens to Passengers"
From the BBC: Heathrow's new Terminator 2 has killed its first passengers, with the airport insisting it has learned lessons from the last two or three films. Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 DEBATE -
"Page Boy Farts During Queen's Speech"
From The Evening Standard: A page boy appeared to fart as he stood next to the Queen while she neared the end of her speech outlining the Government’s proposed... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 DEBATE -
Children Given Human Right to Have Babies Under Labour Government
From the Daily Mail Every child in the country will be give a 'human right to have babies' if Labour wins the next election, the party's deputy leader Harriet... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 DEBATE