Markwadsworth
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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Readers' Letters Of The Day
Both from The Metro, page 14/15.Those who say Underground workers should not be allowed to strike would transport us back to Dickensian times when children... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2014 DEBATE -
BBC Bans All-tall Basketball Matches
From the TelegraphThe BBC is to ban all-tall basketball matches and insist that at least one jockey is included in every line-up, the corporation’s head of... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 DEBATE -
The Land Use Trade-off is Not Between Urban and Agricultural, It's Between...
Taken from Eurostat.Click to enlarge: Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 DEBATE -
Songs About Long Road Trips Usually End in California
Chuck Berry: Promised landStart: Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia...End: Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia... Tell the folks back home this is the promised... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 DEBATE -
Poor Widows In Mansions
From The Evening Standard:The house - the former the home of author Honor Ruth Aspinall who died in 2012 - is being seen as more evidence of the seemingly... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2014 DEBATE -
Excel is Really Good for Page Layout and Photo Collages
Inserting pictures and logos into a Word document is usually a right old faff, because they keep disappearing off the page, resizing themselves and re-formattin... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2014 DEBATE -
Something Else Which LVT Would Sort out
The Daily Mail publishes a load of 'haunting' photos of a derelict mansion nr. Windsor in Buckinghamshire.If the owners were expected to cough up £x0,000 LVT... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 DEBATE -
"David Cameron Sets out 'emotional' Case to Keep Scotland in UK"
From The Guardian:The United Kingdom has just seven months to "save the most extraordinary relationship in history", David Cameron warned on Friday, his voice... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 DEBATE -
Movie Genres and Economics
From the TelegraphBut the upsurge of cable TV (with HBO its aggressive creative spearhead) has diluted the networks’ power base, offering a greater diversity... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 BUSINESS, DEBATE, ECONOMICS, ENTERTAINMENT -
Something Else That LVT Would Sort Out..
The sea has taken a nibble at the main line west of Exeter and now people are thinking of re-routing the railway.However,the Daily Mail informs us, as we have... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2014 DEBATE -
I Read It as Far as Far as the First Glaring Error and Decided That He Was a...
From City AM Forum:BRITAIN’S tax credit regime was introduced by Gordon Brown in an attempt to boost the living standards of the low paid. Read more
Posted on 06 February 2014 DEBATE -
The Daily Mail on Top Form
From The Daily Mail:The government’s flagship benefits overhaul is costing £225,000 per person to introduce, new figures show.The much-delayed Universal Credit... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2014 DEBATE -
"If Only They Could Join the Dots…" (2)
From the FT, two days ago:The preferential tax treatment of “non-dom” individuals – people who are not UK domiciled, usually because they were not born in... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2014 DEBATE -
George Monbiot Shoots from the Hip Again
and misses.In an article entitled "Dredging rivers won't stop floods. It will make them worse", George is surprised to find the Environment agency agreeing... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2014 DEBATE -
"If Only They Could Join the Dots…"
… says TBH, who emailed in an article from The Evening Standard:There’s a 99.9% good service on the Hong Kong Metro so no wonder TfL’s bosses are looking to... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2014 DEBATE -
Great News for Wonga Shareholders!
At the back of my mind, I had been thinking about this whole Wonga thing about lending money to high-risk borrowers, i.e. welfare claimants. Read more
Posted on 05 February 2014 DEBATE -
The Sun Finally Identifies the Cause of Britain's "housing Crisis"
It's bloody Bob Crow!All because of him, his wife and daughter, there are 14,000 families on the waiting list in his area! The complete and utter heartless... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 DEBATE -
China Banned for Homosexuality in Sochi
From the Ministry of HarmonyMOSCOW — The Sochi Winter Olympic Committee announced Thursday that it would ban the entire Chinese Olympic figure skating team... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 DEBATE -
[Divide and Conquer] Missing the Point Most Gloriously
From City AM Forum, Tech resentment in San Francisco is ignoring the real culprit: GovernmentRENTS are rising, pushing people on low incomes out of the... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 DEBATE -
Sink Holes Go Mainstream
VFTS emailed in this one from The Daily Mail, with the comment "Sink hole swallows car… which was dangerously close to (unknown value) house":My worry here is... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 DEBATE