Markwadsworth

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• The Invisible Hand

  ... is the expression used, among other things, to describe the phenomenon that even though the private economy is split up into lots of smaller organisations,... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 DEBATE

• Ukraine

  I know you can't believe everything (anything?) you read on Facebook, but I found these two comments interesting:Rascal N Dear: Ukraine is already in virtual... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 DEBATE

• Satire Copies Satire

  The Daily Mash 13 December 2013 THE writer of a Mail Online story about a ‘baby mama’ has said she once had dreams of doing something worthwhile...... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 DEBATE

• The "environmental Kuznets Curve" in Action

  To briefly summarise the Wiki entry, the theory it that when societies first start industrialising, they know or care little about "the environment". Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Prince Charles Says There's 'not a Moment to Lose' in Stamping out Poaching"

  From The Evening Standard: Prince Charles united with his two sons today to launch a determined bid to stamp out the illegal wildlife trade in Africa. He rounde... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 DEBATE

• Scotland and Sterling

  From City AM: If Scotland left the UK but kept the pound, and was cut off in every other way, it would end up like Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 DEBATE

• "MPs Will Not Need to Confess Criminal Past to Employers"

  From The Evening Standard: Thousands of former offenders in the capital, including MPs, council leaders, senior quango members and civil servants, will no longe... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Eight Cars Were Swallowed by 40-foot-wide and 30-foot-deep Hole"

  From The Daily Mail:A 30-foot-deep sinkhole has swallowed eight vintage American cars on display at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, including a 1962... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 DEBATE

• Jane Moore on Top Form

  From yesterday's Soaraway Sun:GEORGIA JAGGER, model and daughter of Sir Mick, has posed in a Save The Arctic T-shirt for Dame Vivienne Westwood, who is... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 DEBATE

• The Battle Of Jutland

  Seeing as World War I is back in fashion, here's something I've been meaning to post about for ages. From Wiki:  At the time, Jellicoe was criticised for his... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 DEBATE

• More on Flooding

  The Telegraph publishes a piece from the horse's mouth. Meanwhile others think it's all a deep laid plot by the EU. Pity Ishtar Dingir doesn't know that the... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 DEBATE

• Lunchtime Quiz

  

  OK... What's the connection?Answer:They all had drinks named after themB-52 (cocktail), Shirley Temple (cocktail), Napoleon Brandy, Bloody Mary (cocktail) and... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 DEBATE

• "Toyota to Recall 1.9 Million Prius Hybrids"

  From the BBC: Toyota is recalling 1.9 million of its top-selling Prius hybrid cars because of a software fault that causes the engine to emit a monotonous... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Who Or What is to Blame for the Floods in England?

  

  As prompted by AK Haart, we're all experts now and can play The Blame Game in this week's Fun Online Poll.Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 DEBATE

• Lord Turner Has Lucid Moment: Shock

  From The Telegraph: In a wide-ranging series of comments on the UK economy, Lord Turner said that he thought the Government’s Help to Buy scheme was... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: The Output Gap

  There was a fine debunkage of this concept in City AM Forum recently, concluding with this real life: A powerful blow against the concept of potential output wa... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Smoking in a Car with a Child Present

  Ah, fuck it.The BBC proudly announces that our elected representatives yesterday succumbed to group think by a margin of 376 votes to 107. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 DEBATE

• "A Citizen's Income Would Be Unaffordable"

  Is one of the daftest arguments I have ever heard.The point is, of course, that the Citizen's Income is a tax rebate, so however much tax the... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 DEBATE

• [NHS Fuckwittery] Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: A couple were reported to social services for refusing to let hospital staff test their nine-week-old baby for HIV. Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 DEBATE

• Direct Democracy Doesn't Care What Business Or Government Thinks

  Which is why we won't get it in the UK, just more Strictly come fcuking Dancing and other shiny shiny, look over here shitt. Anywhose; Passed by 50. Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 DEBATE