Markwadsworth

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• I Thought the Chinese Were Supposed to Be Good at Maths...

  From Numbeo.com (a rather handy website, as it happens, it even converts figures to your home currency): Property prices in Shanghai Index Price to Income Ratio... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 DEBATE

• No, Really? I Don't Know Whether to Be Surprised Or Disappointed...

  From the BBC: UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama has discovered. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 DEBATE

• Always Been a Bit Dubious About Schools "careers Advice"

  From the FT Sajid Javid, the new culture secretary, was once tipped by his school careers officer for a career in the media. “I was told that I should apply... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Stupid Printer Questions & The Girls Aloud School Syllabus

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Tray 1 Letter unavailable Use Tray 2 A4 - 6 votes Load Tray 1 Letter - 39 votes Well done the 39 o... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 DEBATE

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier

  According to the posters and other publicity material, "Content advice: frequent moderate violence". Uhuh. We went to see it yesterday, and that's a fair... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (323)

  "I paid for my home out of taxed income!", i.e. so it's unfair to tax me again on its rental value. Kj knocked this one out of the park a couple of days ago: "I... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 DEBATE

• The Top Gear Challenge Problem

  One of the things I like in Top Gear is the races, where Clarkson has to get somewhere by car and Hammond and May have to do it by public transport. And almost... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 DEBATE

• "IN a Courageous Act of Forgiveness..."

  From The Express: IN a courageous act of forgiveness, the Queen is to shake hands with ex- IRA commander Martin McGuinness whose terrorist comrades murdered... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Doctors Implant Lab-grown Vaginas"

  From the BBC: The boards of four leading banks have been implanted with new vaginas grown in the laboratory by doctors in the US. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 DEBATE

• George Osborne Does a Bit of Indian Bicycle Marketing, Ed Balls Goes Off-script

  He's really gone round the clock of DoubleThink this time, from The Daily Mail: Economic doom-mongers who insisted cuts in public spending would stifle... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 DEBATE

• Praise Be L&G

  From City AM: MOST companies have a bland or predictable worldview. Not so Legal General, the insurance giant. It has developed a sophisticated analysis of ou... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 DEBATE

• From a Distance, Kevin Spacey Looks Surprisingly Like David Cameron.

  

  While we're on the topic, how did the lady behind the counter know that Cameron was lying? Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 DEBATE

• China's Plopelty Bubbre 'FINARRY AT BULSTING POINT'

  Flom The Maraysia Chlonicre BEIJING - Businessman Arren Zhao has been waiting since the middre of rast yeal fol plices in the scenic southeln city of Hangzhou t... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Tamiflu: Millions Wasted on Flu Drug, Claims Major Report"

  From the BBC: Hundreds of millions of pounds have been wasted on a drug for flu that works better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 DEBATE

• Housing Crisis Catch-22

  A quick summary of a Q A I recently had with one of the UK's leading economic commentators. Question. In general, would you rather live somewhere where land... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 DEBATE

• The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason - Again

  When I saw that MPs were calling for the trains on HS2 to be slower, I thought there'd been an outbreak of common sense and that someone had spotted that it... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 DEBATE

• Hardly Surprising.

  From The Daily Mail, a table showing the amount of mortgage debt owed to members of the Council of Mortgage Lenders. The council’s breakdown puts total... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From the FT: Sir, I was fascinated to read the latest IMF research that estimates the subsidy that Britain’s largest banks still enjoy from implicit government... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers (2)

  It's always sad when somebody close to you, or some public figure for whom you feel affection, dies but let's look at the numbers: World population = approx.... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 DEBATE

• "Irish President Michael D Higgins in Historic UK Visit"

  From the BBC: Irish President Michael D Higgins has been welcomed to the UK by a keen local archaeologist at the start of the first state visit to Hadrian's Wal... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 DEBATE