Markwadsworth

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• The UK: a House Price Based Economy with a House Price Based Currency.

  

  The first chart is house prices adjusted for inflation since Q1 2004 from Nationwide. The second is GBP averaged out against other major currencies (6-month... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 DEBATE

• SumoKing's Libertarian Corner

  That the conservative opposition to too much government control is not a matter of principle but is concerned with the particular aims of government is clearly... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 DEBATE

• Maybe Boris Johnson Understands More Than He Lets On?

  From The Daily Mail: While some Tory ministers were under pressure from voters to oppose the HS2 Bill at second reading last night, Mr Johnson declared he had... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 DEBATE

• "How Our Love of Debit Cards is Killing off Cash"

  From The Daily Mail: Cash is being killed off by the banks as they push customers to switch to cards, automated payments and a new service which is linked to... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 DEBATE

• Ricardo's Law Of Rent (part 94)

  From Lloyds Banking Group: Homeowners in local authorities with the largest falls in the unemployment rate have seen the value of their property rise by almost... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 DEBATE

• Another One of Those Fire Death Stories

  As somebody who spends a fair amount of time scanning headlines and reading the odd article, it struck me a while back that nine times out of ten, if there's a... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 DEBATE

• A Surprising U-turn...

  From The Metro: Smokers are turning to e-cigarettes in their droves, new research suggests. More than 2million adults now regularly use the tobacco-free... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Snails & Christian Countries

  THe responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Have you ever thrown a snail into a neighbour's garden? Yes - 41% No - 28% I don't do any gardenin... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: "Workers Should Own the Means of Production"

  ... is one of those things which the Lefties like to say. Whether or not this is a desirable aim in itself, they have sorely missed the point. I have often... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 DEBATE

• This Might Be Like 1988 All Over Again...

  From Wiki: Mortgage interest relief at source, or MIRAS, was a scheme introduced in the United Kingdom by Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins in 1969 in a... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 DEBATE

• How Many People Jumped off the Building in This Video?

  From the BBC: Sky divers Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen have set a new world record by base jumping from the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Adverse Interest Rate Movements"???

  From the BBC: London's Gherkin skyscraper has been placed into receivership by its creditors after one of its owners was placed in insolvency. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 DEBATE

• If You Peel Potatoes, You Lose a Quarter by Weight.

  

  I had to boil potatoes today and the kids said that they'd prefer them peeled first. So I weighed out the regulation 8 oz per person (275 grams in new money) an... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Police Raid City of London and Arrest Everybody"

  From The Evening Standard: Police today smashed everything being run from offices in the heart of the Square Mile.Fifteen thousand smartly dressed office worker... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Cornish People Granted Serf Status"

  From the BBC: Cornish people have been granted serf status under Prince Charles' new rules for his now independent Duchy. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 DEBATE

• The Girl With The Dragon Earring

  From imdb.com and imdb.com: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story of a disgraced journalist,... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 DEBATE

• Unlikely Causes of Acid Rain, Part 94: Ammonia

  From The Metro: Cows and sheep release 37 per cent of the world's methane, which is 23 times as warming as CO2.... Yup, that would appear to be true. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From our favourite roving crime reporter-cum-estate agent: Three disabled children have been found dead at their home and a 43-year-old woman has been arrested... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 DEBATE

• We're Really Not Sure. But We Definitely Know.

  From the BBC, a couple of days ago: For most of the 20th Century crime rose and rose and rose. Every time a new home secretary took office in the UK - or their... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Fusion Reaction Created in Microwave Oven"

  From the BBC: Scientists have outlined how they managed to create a fusion reaction using a household microwave oven. Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 DEBATE