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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Price and Non-price Rationing
Civitas, a reliably dusty old right-wing authoritarian think-tank have, somewhat to my surprise, published this:Overseas investment in London homes must be... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 DEBATE -
Meanwhile, on Planet Zog...
From The Evening Standard:A resident of “Billionaires’ Row” today said it is “great” that a third of all properties in the area lie empty because it gives local... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 DEBATE -
"Queen to Make State Visit to France"
From the BBC:The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are to make a three-day state visit to France this summer, Buckingham Palace has said. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 DEBATE -
"Drug Demons Win Battle Against Oscar-winning Actor After Fighting Him Half of...
From The Mirror:Tenacious Class A drug heroin finally won its battle against Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman after fighting him for more than half... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 DEBATE -
"Lloyds Banking Group to Offer Free Sex-change Operations to Male Managers"
From City AM:Lloyds: 40pc of our top managers will be women in 2020Antonio Horta Osorio will commit to ensuring 40 per cent of senior staff are female by 2020. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 DEBATE -
Floods
From the IndependentBritain may have to choose whether it wants to save "town or country" from future flooding because it is too costly to defend both, the... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: High House Prices Or High Wages & Smoking in Cars
The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:For a given size of an economy, which would you choose:High house prices, low wages - 4%High wages,... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 DEBATE -
Creative Destruction
From the GuardianThere's a fear that Cash's is about to join such names as Woolworths and Blockbuster on the great commercial scrapheap of the recession years. Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 DEBATE -
The Home-Owner-Ists' Favourite Kind of Tax...
… is what, exactly?IF you are hard-right, authoritarian and/or Faux Libertarian, you believe a) that income from 'land' ranks equally with income from... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 DEBATE -
Top Blogging This Week
There are weeks when other people save you the bother of posting it yourself.On subsidies to the energy industry...1. Nick Drew points out that your enemy's... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 DEBATE -
Great Daily Mail Headlines of the Week
EXCLUSIVE - 'He didn't want to cause us anymore shame': Father reveals it was family babysitter who molested Senate aide who killed himself after child porn bus... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2014 DEBATE -
Cameron is a Tit
From the BBC"In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (315)
From Labour Uncut:Madasafish says:... the article talks glibly about Land Taxes(1) but not all land is equal. An acre in Central London is worth more than an... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Thousands of Sellafield Nuclear Site Workers Told to Stay Away as 'elevated'...
From The Daily Mail: The Sellafield nuclear site has been evacuated this morning because of 'elevated levels of bulshit'. Thousands of non-essential staff have... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 DEBATE -
Word of the Day: Geek
From the Daily MailSupermarket giant Tesco has removed a range of clothes featuring pictures of animals wearing spectacles and the words 'nerd' and 'geek'... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 DEBATE -
George Osborne's Economic Miracle
Is just a carbon copy of Blair-Brown's isn't it?Since I started taking a closer interest in these things, i.e. a year or two before I started 'blogging, it... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 DEBATE -
Another "car Attacks House" Story
From the BBC: "I heard lots of revving and then the car must have just shot out of her driveway opposite, across the road, through my parents' brick wall... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2014 DEBATE -
Mithridatism
From the BBCDoctors say a potential treatment for peanut allergy has transformed the lives of children taking part in a large clinical trial. Read more
Posted on 30 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Looking Back into the Mists of Time"
From the BBC: ... Bridgwater and West Somerset MP Ian Liddell-Grainger dismissed the claims that the rain would have overwhelmed the river system even if it... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2014 DEBATE -
The Railway Family
From Wiki and Wiki: During World War II, Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Read more
Posted on 30 January 2014 DEBATE