Markwadsworth

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• 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

• Carry Bag Tax

  I'm already irritated by this tax. It's everything I hate about the worst aspects of Guardian Ecosocialism. If it was simply a case of taxing the pollution and... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 DEBATE

• Indian Bicycle Marketing: Boris Johnson Special

  From The Times 30 May 2014: Older people who sell up their family home to downsize would be exempt from paying inheritance tax on their profits under plans bein... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 DEBATE

• Postman Pat Always Rings Twice

  From Wiki and Wiki: Postman Pat Always Rings Twice is a 1946 British computer-animated comedy film-noir based on the long-running BBC children's series of the... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 DEBATE

• "Clegg and Cable Pub Visit Show of Unity"

  From the BBC: Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and Vince Cable have put on a show of unity with a visit to a London pub. The event, to highlight the fact that Vince... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 DEBATE

• Tim Montgomerie Drugs and Fraud Scandal

  From wiki and wiki Tim Montgomerie (born 24 July 1970) is a British Conservative Party activist, blogger, comment editor and columnist for The Times and former... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 DEBATE

• Mongo World: Same Old, Same Old.

  From The Daily Mash: FIFA has promised an investigation into the successful 2026 World Cup bid by the planet Mongo. Work on the stadia has been plagued with... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 DEBATE

• Indian Bicycle Marketing: George Osborne Lets the Mask Slip

  From sundaypost.com: George Osborne appears to have admitted defeat on the Tory pledge to bring annual net immigration below 100,000 by the general election. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 DEBATE

• "BBC Staff Complain of 'trend of Filth and Human Waste' Broadcast from New £1bn...

  From The Evening Standard: BBC newsreaders have complained the corporation’s flagship £3 billion output is unclean and dangerous with a “trend of filth... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 DEBATE

• "Frankly My Dear, Tourhett Butler Has the Best Put-down"

  From The Daily Mail, an old VIZ joke: Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell has been crowned the queen of the literary put-down in a new survey. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 DEBATE

• The Edge Of The Day After Tomorrow Never Dies

  From imdb, imdb and imdb: An alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault as a palæoclimatologist named Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is in... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: UKIP MEPs & the FIFA World Cup

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: How many of UKIP's 24 MEP will leave the party by 2019? None - 12 votes 1 to 3 - 20 4 to 6 - 9 6 to ... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 DEBATE

• Unlikely Land Value Taxers: Boris Johnson and Peter Wynne Rees

  From The Evening Standard (page 29, 30 May 2014) or see here: PENSIONERS should be able to protect the value of their property "nest egg" from inheritance tax i... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 DEBATE

• A Cafe Owner Writes...

  Spotted from a local cafe to me Our landlord allowed us the first six months rent-free but the minute we started to trade we, like all similar businesses, becam... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 DEBATE

• Doctorates

  From The New Republic “Dr. Angelou,” which was repeated by many media outlets after she died, was willed by Ms. Angelou herself: Her website referred to her as... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 DEBATE

• The Boundless Hubris of London Cabbies, Part 94

  From The Register: Transport for London (TfL) has said that it doesn’t think that the app used by Uber drivers is in breach of the law by allowing them to use... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 DEBATE

• Movie Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past: 3D

  

  I've recently been neglecting my duties in the movie review area, but as it's the weekend and some people might consider it, it's worth posting a review. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 DEBATE

• Antiques Roadshow Van Dyke to Make £50 – Daily TV Round-up

  

  From Yahoo A video clip which appeared on the 'Antiques Roadshow' is expected to make £50 when it goes to auction later this summer. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 DEBATE

• 2014 Index of Economic Freedom

  From The Heritage Foundation: Free (80 - 100) 1. Hong Kong 2. Singapore 3. Australia 4. Switzerland 5. New Zealand 6. Canada What do the first two have in... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 DEBATE

• Oooh the Irony...

  The paper version of the article in The Metro includes a picture of 1D fan "Jessie" burning her concert ticket* in protest at two of the band allowing themselve... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 DEBATE