Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Parking 'brings £594m Surplus for English Councils'

  From the BBCCouncils are making record surpluses from parking charges and fines, according to the RAC Foundation.In 2012-13 local authorities in England made a... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Romania, Bulgaria and Make up Your Own Question

  Our wild guesses in last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:How many Bulgarians and Romanians will come to the UK and other western European countries... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 DEBATE

• "Bloke Tells of Struggle with Miranda Hart's Fame"

  From the BBC:An office worker has spoken of loneliness and struggling with Miranda Hart's fame in an interview for Desert Island Discs. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 DEBATE

• Listed Buildings Cause Injuries

  From ITVIn 2000, Lord Lloyd-Webber, who owned sold the Apollo to Nimax in 2005, told The Times: "The Apollo in particular is a shocking place. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 DEBATE

• Waiting in Line and Location Values.

  There are of course lots of interesting theories about queueing, and I am sure there are a few basic generic types of queue (the British English word for... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  DBC draws my attention to this in The Guardian:Ed Miliband's proposals to prevent the hoarding of land by developers and unhelpful neighbouring councils (Report... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 DEBATE

• ResPublica on Top Form

  John L draws my attention to this recent article:... The current incarnation of the housing crisis has exposed our past failures to get it right and with an eve... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 DEBATE

• Film Review: The World's End (streaming)

  In the past, Edgar Wright has successfully taken certain Hollywood genres, like cop movies or zombie movies and successfully mixed them with certain aspects... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 DEBATE

• Car Insurance Premiums

  From the BBCThe Commission has been studying the £11bn private motor insurance market for more than a year, following a referral from the Office of Fair... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Xmas Cards & Romania and Bulgaria

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:How many Xmas cards will you send this year?None - 46%Half a dozen - 26%A dozen or so - 13%To... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 DEBATE

• Problem + Problem = Solution

  

  Here's the Sally Army's Xmas 2013 TV advert:Now, let me see if I can reduce the first two problems highlighted to a simple diagram, the solution of which must b... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 DEBATE

• LVT and Airports

  From the Daily HomeowneristPeople who live near airports should pay less tax for ‘tolerating’ high levels of noise, a new report suggests. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 DEBATE

• That's Completely Irrelevant and Not Even Necessarily True...

  From the BBC:Grammar schools are "stuffed full" of middle-class children and do not improve social mobility, the chief inspector of schools in England says. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 DEBATE

• Time Travels from Left to Right

  It is an unwritten (but oft spoken) law of filming (whether cinema, TV or advertising) that when the character is making a lengthier journey, he moves from... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 DEBATE

• House Fires

  A headline in the Daily Mail just caught my eye:Woman who died alongside husband and mother in 'murder suicide' house fire had been STABBED to death… Mahnaz... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 DEBATE

• Woman to Be Disciplined by Exeter University After Being Named 'Britain’s Most...

  From the IndependentA student is set to be disciplined by her university after she was crowned “Britain’s Most Uptight Student” by a dating website – even thoug... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 DEBATE

• Readers' Letters Of The Day

  From The Metro: It's a bit rich Bob Crow complaining about the cost of rail tickets for passengers (Metro, Mon). Where does he think the money comes from to... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 DEBATE

• TV Historian Dr Suzannah Lipscombe

  

  Picture pinched from the full article at The Daily Mail, she is to TV history as Dr Helen Czersky is to TV science:Or Becky Mantin to weather forecasting, Jessi... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 DEBATE

• Employment Markets

  From the BBC:The boss of Domino's Pizza should "probably pay his staff a little more" if he wants to recruit extra workers, the UK's immigration minister has... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 DEBATE

• "Children's Exercise Policy is Child Cruelty"

  From the BBC:The national policy to get UK children to do more exercise amounts to mass "child cruelty", the British Journal of Electronic Games... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 DEBATE