Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• The Flagship Tenant

  Continuing the general theme of "The Death Of The Traditional High Street" and "Retail Mix Control", as well as the related topic of "how land ownership... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE

• "William Hague: All Women Should Feel Shame of Rape in War Zones"

  From The Evening Standard: All women should feel “shame” at the world’s failure to prevent rape being used as a weapon in war, William Hague... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Simplify Taxes Now"

  Allister Heath talks sense for a change: It would be great if Ben Gummer, the Tory MP for Ipswich, gets his way. He wants national insurance contributions (NICS... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE

• Film Review: Much Ado About Nothing (2012)

  Much Ado About Nothing is a slightly strange film. It's shot in black and white, in modern costume, with a mostly American cast of the sort of people that appea... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE

• Arguing with the Daily Mail

  One of the problems with people's perspective on the Daily Mail is that just because they disagree with them, they think the Daily Mail are liars. It's my... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Herd of Rampaging Cattle Cause Bloodshed and Mayhem in Kent!"

  OK, I might have over-sensationalised an article from Kent Online a bit:Stunned people cud not believe their eyes when they saw a calf running freely along one... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Buckingham Palace Suffers from the Highest Level of Royalty in the Country..."

  From The Evening Standard:... with almost four times the European legal limit, according to the latest figures.Buckhingham Palace, the Queen’s London... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DEBATE

• Staggeringly Ill-informed Comments About National Insurance...

  ... over at The Daily Mail:In among the dross, the currently best rated comment plus reply:macular degenerate, limassol, Cyprus: THE ONLY CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Four Day Week & Ukraine

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:If your employer offered you a four-day week for the same pay, which day would you take off? Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DEBATE

• Dartmoor Homies

  From Sarah Woolaston in the GuardianA seismic change may be about to rock our national parks and other areas of outstanding natural beauty; and it is concealed... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Cow Destroyed After Posing a Danger to Public"

  Emailed in by Steve A, who adds "You’ve been neglecting your bovine stories recently. So here’s a case of mistaken identity that ends in death."[Mea culpa, I go... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 DEBATE

• Valuation Office Agency: Private Rental Market Statistics (England Only)

  I discovered something new this week at the VOA website.You can download their spreadsheet for average rents. If you take Tab 2. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 DEBATE

• Film Review: Sunshine on Leith

  It probably helps that I quite like the music of The Proclaimers, but I also rather liked the film Sunshine on Leith which is a "jukebox musical" including... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 DEBATE

• Material for an Interesting Pub Conversation

  

  A Femen activist/self-publicist in Dresden had the nerve to appear topless in public with the slogan "Thanks Bomber Harris" daubed across her torso, but... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (317)

  The KLN goes like this: But rich people will just register their homes in the name of an offshore company, so the government won't be able to collect the tax. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE

• "With the Chancellor’s Budget Approaching, Which Tax is the Most Damaging to...

  ... asks City AM.Now, this whole "economy" thing depends on people exchanging labour, goods and services, no man is an island and all that, that is how wealth i... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Nigel Farage 'can Hardly Wait' to Debate EU with Nick Clegg"

  From the BBC: UKIP leader Nigel Farage has accepted a challenge from Nick Clegg to have a public debate on the merits of the UK's membership of the EU. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE

• This is How to Do It.

  From Reuters: Opponents of Ukraine's president declared political autonomy in the major western city of Lviv on Wednesday after a night of violence when... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE

• Is This Really Worth It?

  From the BBCThree men aged 88, 92 and 94 have been detained by German authorities on suspicion of being guards at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE

• Picking Winners (Music Style)

  From the BBCRock band Drenge are among 14 acts to receive a government grant to help promote British music abroad.The Derbyshire brothers hit the headlines... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE