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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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"The Great British Fuck Off"
From Wiki The Great British Fuck Off is a BAFTA award-winning British television swearing competition first shown by the BBC on 17 August 2010. Read more
Posted on 10 January 2014 DEBATE -
Housing Affordability. LVT Will Sort It Out.
Housing affordability is measured by the Median Multiple, the ratio of median house prices to median gross household income.In the UK, the MM is 5.1. Read more
Posted on 10 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Riot Police Braced for Outbreak of Lawful Killings Despite Aunt’s Call for Calm"
From The Daily Mail:Riot police are on standby in London today braced for a fresh outbreak of lawful killings after a jury ruled that Mark Duggan was lawfully... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2014 DEBATE -
Too Big to Fail?
Spotted hereSome of the UK's largest regulators could face more onerous oversight requirements after citizens and market participants unveiled proposals to... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2014 DEBATE -
Red Sky at Night...
An article in The Daily Mail featuring photographs of some polar bears watching the sky turn red as the sun sets reminds me of something else which has been... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Campaigners Vow to Cut Bullshit About Food"
From the BBC: A campaign group has been formed to reduce the amount of pseudo-science published about food and soft drinks in an effort to tackle miseducation i... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2014 DEBATE -
I Wish These Faux Libs Would Make up Their Minds...
The HICE in CityAM:SELL, sell, sell – or so we must hope. With a bit of luck, the government is finally about to kick-start a massive and long-overdue sell-off... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 DEBATE -
Multi-millionaire Businesswoman Forced to Close Upmarket Night Club as 'farmers...
From The Evening Standard A TOP City executive who juggled her career with raising six children has blamed the failure of her night club in Wymondham near... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 DEBATE -
Movie Review: John Carter
I've made it my new year's resolution to go and review all sorts of movies that were either famous box office or critical bombs. Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 DEBATE -
Nigel Farage Shows His Conservative Side
If you said to me, would I like to see over the next ten years a further five million people come in to Britain and if that happened we’d all be slightly richer... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 DEBATE -
Reminder: Mark Added You as a Contact on Twoo and Wants to Connect
I found an exclusive and fun way to meet new people online: Twoo.com. Read this mail in: , , Español, Français, العربية, and 32 other languages. You received... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Ministry of Sound Club in Deal with Developer Over Noise"
From The Evening Standard:The boss of the Ministry of Sound nightclub today said a “groundbreaking” deal over noise would help the much-needed development of... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 DEBATE -
The Regulatory Tax (2)
Continuing Ben Jamin's topic from earlier today.On Planet Faux Lib, a regulatory tax is defined as follows, DCLG pp22-23:Recent empirical studies that examine... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2014 DEBATE -
Sumoking’s Libertarian Corner - The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing...
This gem of an act grants local authorities, police and private security firms (i.e. the people retained by those who now own your parks, town centres, shops... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2014 DEBATE -
The Ultimate Regulation Tax
Economists keep banging on how planning regulations are the main cause of high house prices. They say, if we scrapped regulations, prices would dramatically... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2014 DEBATE -
Radio Spectrum Auctions: Questions for Faux Libs
From Reuters: T-Mobile US Inc is buying wireless airwave licenses from Verizon Wireless to improve its high-speed network in a $3.3 billion deal and said it... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2014 DEBATE -
“I’m Not Doing It Because I Have To, but If I Get a Chance, I Find It Immensely...
From The Evening Standard:Television presenter Kirstie Allsopp has said she secretly enjoys mundane tasks such as churning out baseless arguments against LVT... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DEBATE -
Joined up Government
From The Evening Standard: A massive £12 billion of welfare cuts are needed in the two years after the 2015 general election, George Osborne announced today... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DEBATE -
"Outrage as Celebrity Big Brother Housemate Jo O'Meara Says Being Black Ain't...
From The Evening Standard and the BBC: Former S-Club 7 singer Jo O'Meara is facing a backlash from Celebrity Big Brother viewers after saying that being black... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DEBATE -
Where Eagles Dare To Have Landed
From imdb and imdb Following Mussolini's daring rescue by the SS, Hitler decides to abduct a double of Churchill's and bring him to Berlin and orders Wilhelm... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DEBATE