Markwadsworth

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• "Please Do Not Touch Or Distract Me. I Am Working."

  A chap got off the Tube this morning accompanied by a guide dog. The dog had a large notice attached to its harness bearing the message "Please do not touc... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Radicalised Children & Inconsiderate Car Drivers

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:Boris Johnson has said that Muslim children at risk of radicalisation should be taken into care:Tha... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 DEBATE

• Robert Peston Goes Shopping

  Transcribed from part 2/3, originally broadcast on 9 September 2013.Tesco had steadily been making progress through the '80s but it wasn't until after the... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 DEBATE

• Sockpuppet Journalism

  Rather splendid bit of investigation by a Brixton resident into a C4 news report on Brixton on Brixton Buzz:-It turns out that the reporter, Jordan... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 DEBATE

• "It's a Disaster Waiting to Happen!"

  … says Julia M who emailed in this from Newsshopper:"Hush hush" proposals to put grazing cows in a popular park and golf course are complete and udder madness,... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014 DEBATE

• ASH Logic

  From the BBC: The head teacher of a school for children with behavioural issues has defended her decision to permit pupils to smoke. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 DEBATE

• "Ukraine Vote Plan Blights Crimean Business Investment, Says Cable"

  From the BBC: Oleksandr Turchynov's commitment to an in/out referendum on continuing membership of the Russian Federation is "blighting" investment... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 DEBATE

• Regional Inequality. LVT Will Sort It Out.

  

  Every time a city doubles in size, it gains a 15% bonus.15% higher GDP per capita. 15% higher wages. 15% more amenities per capita.This becomes a positive... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 DEBATE

• Car Designers

  

  When I was a lad and you learned to draw a saloon car, it looked something like this:There is one horizontal line which forms the top of the bonnet and boot... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 DEBATE

• Canadian Porn (Safe for Work)

  From CBCThe Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says AOV XXX Action Clips and AOV Maleflixxx may not be airing enough Canadian content o... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 DEBATE

• "Millions Saved from Missed NHS Appointments"

  From the BBC:The NHS says it has saved millions of pounds in the last year because of the number of patients failing to turn up for appointments. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 DEBATE

• Further Confusion as to What Inflation Really Is.

  This morning I attended a generally excellent seminar hosted by Vanguard. Vanguard are one of the foremost managers of index funds in the world. Their funds... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 DEBATE

• Business Rates

  From Sky (h/t tip Bayard for pointing me to this)The Committee urges ministers to give a six-month business rates amnesty for firms occupying empty properties... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 DEBATE

• "Fakecharity Tax May Be Necessary, English Blogger Says"

  From the BBC:'Involuntary pledges'The blogger Mark Wadsworth, who often posts about 'fakecharities', supposedly independent bodies who receive most of their... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 DEBATE

• "Where's That Confounded Bridge?"

  Continuing my occasional series of posts on land values with titles swiped from Led Zeppelin song titles or lyrics from their albums "Houses of The... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 DEBATE

• Readers' Letters Of The Day

  Three from The Metro (page 14): With regard to John Kerry's condemnation of Russia, I wonder how deeply the words 'invading another country on a completely... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 DEBATE

• Childcare Costs

  From the BBCAnand Shukla, chief executive at the Family and Childcare Trust, said: "When even part-time childcare costs outstrip the average mortgage for a... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 DEBATE

• Oscar Trial

  From the BBC and the BBCThe Oscars have pleaded not guilty to killing an awards ceremony about cinema by throwing awards at self-righteous films that no-one... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 DEBATE

• Film Review: Thor: The Dark World

  I really liked the first Thor movie and heard good things about this, but I generally don't bother with sequels at the cinema. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (318)

  Those who pretend that only the real economy (and all its advances in technology) exists and who have a massive blind spot where the Land Monopoly Black Hole... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 DEBATE