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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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Gloriously Shit Ideas Of The Day
From the BBC: Parents who earn a combined income of more than £80,000 should have to pay if their children go to the most popular state schools, a report... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2014 DEBATE -
The Rules of Football (4)
From Deloitte's Annual Review of Football Finance This year they spared us the wailing about "players' wages keep increasing as a % of club... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Police to Ask Home Secretary to Approve Use of Super Soakers Across Country"
From The Guardian: Chief constables are shortly to press the home secretary, Theresa May, to authorise the use of super soakers by any police force across... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2014 DEBATE -
The World Is Hot Enough
From Wiki and Wiki MI6 agent James Bond meets a Swiss banker to retrieve money from Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M who has caused an... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2014 DEBATE -
Wine Taxes
From Jancis RobinsonHave you noticed the quality of supermarket wine declining? Have you noticed prices of mass-market wine in the UK rising over the last few... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2014 DEBATE -
Who Pays the Piper Etc.
Policy Exchange have 'done a Demos'. Their new report rides the old Help to Save - Defusing the pensions time bomb bandwagon. This meme/myth is based on... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2014 DEBATE -
Reader's Letter Of The Day
From The Metro Last week, the Sutherland family were prosecuted for taking their children out of school for a week's holiday. Now, 16-year-old Lewis Clarke has... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2014 DEBATE -
Whatever is the World Coming To..?
From The Mirror, February 2013: Mum, 22, arrested on child trafficking charges after 'trying to sell her kids on Facebook for $5,000'From The Mirror, January... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2014 DEBATE -
I Can't Make up My Mind Whether This is Hilariously Funny Or Depressingly Sad...
From The Wrexham Leader:THERE was pandemonium at a discount shop when tempers flared over a half price sale.Police were called to the 99p Store on Regent Street... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2014 DEBATE -
Nice Bit of Nimbyism in the Caring Sharing Guardian
From the GuardianOf course, we need more housing in this country. But our ward is already the most densely populated in Barnet, and there has to be a limit.... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Scottish Pubs Urged to Offer Wine in Thimbles"
From the BBC: Scotland's bars and pubs are being urged to promote the sale of smaller measures of wine. Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said thimble... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2014 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Idiot Lobbyists Campaigning Against the Wrong Thing
A spokeswoman for the pubco lobbying body was on Radio 4 this morning, ostensibly complaining about moves to introduce a "statutory code of practice" for the wa... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2014 DEBATE -
Reader's Letter Of The Day (2)
From last Friday's Guardian, actually: Ed Miliband's plans for the political realignment of the middle class may well founder on the issue of home ownership,... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2014 DEBATE -
Reader's Letter Of The Day
From the FT: Sir, The ease with which banks outwit politicians* is well summarised by Philip Stephens (Comment, January 17). One central point that eludes... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2014 DEBATE -
I Can Think of One Possible Answer to That..
The BBC asks: Why are India's tigers killing humans? There are about 1,700 tigers left in the wild in India. In the past five weeks, 17 people in four states... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2014 DEBATE -
An Interesting Model in Cafes
from the GuardianA Russian cafe chain called Ziferblat has opened its first UK store in east London. It provides tea and coffee and Wi-Fi for nothing – but... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2014 DEBATE -
The Daily Mash on Top Form
From The Daily Mash:A UK Independence Party councillor has blamed recent storms and floods on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage. Read more
Posted on 18 January 2014 DEBATE -
VAT is the Worst Tax of All #974
Because it is so inherently f-ing snobby. From The Evening Standard: A world-renowned bellydancing teacher today revealed her dismay at being forced to pay a... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2014 DEBATE -
Even Golf Courses Hate Bankers
From The Daily Mail A claustrophobic mortgage banker has told the story of how a round of golf ended up with him plunging into a sinkhole that opened as he... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2014 DEBATE -
Questions That Don't Need an Answer
From the TelegraphIt fell to Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, to summarise the debate during the Detroit show. Read more
Posted on 17 January 2014 DEBATE