Markwadsworth

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• Rent Seeking

  From The Law Society Gazette: The lord chancellor is to be represented at tomorrow’s appeal challenging a Crown court judge’s decision to throw out a major frau... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 DEBATE

• Eurovision Voting

  

  From the BBC The latest Eurovision figures have revealed the differences between the public phone vote and the jury vote at Saturday night's competition. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 DEBATE

• Conservationist Homeys

  From Paul Cheshire at the LSE One might argue that among the culprits, the conservation groups themselves have inadvertently played a leading role in getting... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 DEBATE

• Glasgow Declared New Scottish Capital in Anticipation of September Liberation

  

  Well, by the Guardian at least (they amended the web version) Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: EU Parliament Elections & The Rise in Owner-occupation During...

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Polls, on a very good turnout of 152, were as follows: How do you intend to vote in the EU Parliament elections? Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 DEBATE

• More Taxi Rent Seeking

  On a recent post of Mark's, I commented that The US is worse - you don't even have minicabs in some places, which is why Uber got created. Turns out that Uber i... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 DEBATE

• UK's Lowest-paid Employees to Be Classed as 'not Working Enough'

  One million people could be pushed to earn more – or have their benefits cut, says Department for Work and Pensions Says the headline in the Guardian. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 DEBATE

• What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Guardian: A range of Help to Buy mortgages which combine financial assistance from the government with credit card-style "0%"... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 DEBATE

• Bugger

  NEWS: Archaeologists working with developers on a site near Coate Water in #Swindon have found what's believed to be an ancient burial mound — BBC Wiltshire... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Not-so Top Form...

  An excellent start, I'll give them that: Hunt for woman, 88, after her 87-year-old husband is found DECAPITATED in their million dollar home I suppose that the... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 DEBATE

• Readers' Letters Of The Day

  Both from today's Evening Standard (page 57): MY wife and I hope one day to move to NW5. While we could never afford the £2. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 DEBATE

• Thus, No Doubt, Bringing The Curse Of The Pharaohs Upon Herself...

  From The Daily Mail: While Miley Cyrus was proving she's just as provocative as ever in London, Katy Perry took to the stage in Belfast in far more bubble-gum... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (325)

  Caroline Lucas was harangued by somebody from the Home Builders Federation (or similar) on the radio, who claimed that Land Value Tax would make building new... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 DEBATE

• Rent Controls Abroad (well If Everyone Else is Throwing Their Hats into the Ring)

  

  The Swiss have a civil code legal system rather than a common law legal system (unsurprisingly). Broadly what this means is they look up their gigantic book of... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  10 May 2012: Oh my God, my beautiful babies, they have gone: Father's desperate cries as he finds wife with their smothered children at £1. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 DEBATE

• Tsk Tsk, These Faux Lib Dickheads and Their Economic "theories"...

  From City AM: The rent regulation that Ed Miliband plans to introduce would see three-year rental contracts become the norm, during which landlords would be... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 DEBATE

• Location, Location, Location

  Taxi drivers, who excel at rent seeking (by ensuring that there are barriers to entry, such as "The Knowledge" and a limited number of taxi driver permits, and... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 DEBATE

• Holiday Prices

  From the Telegraph David Cameron has accused travel companies of "deliberately" putting up prices during school holidays and called on head teachers across the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 DEBATE

• Red Ed on the Rampage: World's Oligarchs Tremble with Fear.

  From yesterday's Evening Standard: A crackdown on "ghost homes" being hoarded by wealthy investors across London is unveiled today by Ed Miliband, in an... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 DEBATE

• History of the 21st Century, Part II

  From the BBC, the BBC and the BBC: Ukrainian government forces have retaken the rebel stronghold in the Syrian city of Homs in the south-eastern oil hub of... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 DEBATE