Markwadsworth

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• Another Official Property Scam

  Recently there was a piece on Radio 4 about "shared ownership", which is buying a house on the never never, but with the added joy of paying a mortgage on the... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2020 DEBATE

• Car Hits House

  Article and photo at the BBC. How on earth did he manage to get the front door of the house lodged in his windscreen at that angle, all without totally... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 DEBATE

• "Rishi Sunak to Reform anti-Northern Spending Bias"

  From the BBC: Part of what will change is the Treasury's Green Book - a set of rules it uses to determine the value generated by government schemes. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 DEBATE

• "Sainsbury’s Defends Christmas Advert as Customers Threaten to Boycott Store...

  From The Metro Since it was first aired, the advert has received controversial feedback online, with some slamming the commercial for ‘not representing them’. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 DEBATE

• Buy Now While Stocks Last!

  From the BBC: Ban on new petrol and diesel cars in UK from 2030 under PM's green plan New cars and vans powered wholly by petrol and diesel will not be sold in... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 DEBATE

• Mr Rashford's Property Portfolio

  From the Daily MailCampaigning football star Marcus Rashford has bought five luxury homes worth at least £2 million, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.The... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 DEBATE

• E&W - Weekly Deaths up to Week 44

  

  Data from the ONS: What "second wave?", you might ask. Week 46 will be a special week, as that week's deaths will include the bastard who terrorised West... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 DEBATE

• Insider Trading and Deposit-funded Corporations

  Stories like this or this always leave a bad taste, however much those involved protest their innocence. That's another advantage of deposit-funded corporations... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 DEBATE

• The American Green Party's Successful Electoral Strategy

  Jill Stein, the Green Party's candidate did well in the 2016 Presidential Election, from Wiki: "Stein finished in 4th with over 1,457,216 votes (more than the... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 DEBATE

• "Climate Change May Have Driven Ancient Human Species to Extinction"

  From Science Alert: Researchers have also hypothesized that climate change could have played a role in the extinction of Homo species. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 DEBATE

• Covid-19 and Share Prices

  From The Daily Mail: 'Stay at home' stocks Zoom, Amazon and Netflix all plunge after Pfizer announces its COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective * Zoom shares droppe... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 DEBATE

• Skeptical Science Neatly Disproves Its Own Point with a Diagonal Comparison

  

  From The Motherlode: Using Modtran [which matches up well to actual measurements, so let's take this all as accurate], I determined the energy output looking... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2020 DEBATE

• Pointless Work Emails

  One of the bosses sent an email to All Staff saying that (a) some people had had problems with email yesterday evening, and (b) it is now working again. There... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 DEBATE

• Estimating Square Roots Made Simple

  

  I have sometimes occupied myself (i.e. in boring meetings or at school prize givings where you can't use paper) by calculating square roots in my head by trial... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 DEBATE

• Landlord Affected by Cladding Scandal Has to Increase Rents Or No One Will Want...

  From the Torygraph Tenants face higher rents as landlords caught in cladding crisisMr Coates said he may have to raise the rent if repair costs are passed on... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 DEBATE

• To All Intents and Purposes, the UK Already Has a UBI System

  

  Here's a list of the main benefits and how many million claim each. The categories overlap to some extent and the total number of claimants/recipients must be... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (33)

  I have fallen into this trap far too many times. A lot of the KCNs are arguments against any form of welfare paid out in cash. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2020 DEBATE

• NIgel Farage Makes a Good Point.

  From The Sun: During his surprise appearance, Farage, 56, claimed close pal Trump, 74, is "bringing Israel together with Arab nations in a way that nobody ever... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (486)

  "Unknown" submitted a couple of KLNs, you can tell his heart wasn't really in it: 1. The landlord owns the property and land it stands on because of... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2020 DEBATE

• Cow News

  Both via @AmbushPredator. From The Daily Mail: A growing wellness trend out of the Netherlands has people cuddling cows for comfort. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2020 DEBATE