Markwadsworth

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• People Say the Funniest Things!

  ... in response to surveys. The BBC is on schizophrenic top form today: "Shocking" sexual violence is being carried out by children against other... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2013 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Age of Consent & JFK Assassination Cover-up

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:If it were up to you, what would the age of consent be?None of the government's business - 24... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2013 DEBATE

• Charity Shops and Footfall

  From the BBCCharity shops boost local business, combat unemployment and even help tackle social isolation, according to a report by the think tank Demos. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 DEBATE

• "The Cow That CAN Jump Over the Moon..."

  From The Daily Mail: Cows have a reputation for standing placidly in fields.*  Not these beasts in Finland - who sprang and leaped over an obstacle course as... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 DEBATE

• Amazon Worker Face 'hard Work'

  From the BBCA BBC investigation into a UK-based Amazon warehouse has found conditions that a stress expert said could cause "mental and physical illness". Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 DEBATE

• Tories on Top Form

  Labour detonated the "cost of living" bomb by proposing a price freeze for gas and electricity if they won the next election, which backfired most... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 DEBATE

• Sumoking's Libertarian Corner - Camoron's Pornmageddon!

  Despite the heavy handed and counter productive attempts of the Tory High Command to wipe any trace of embarrassingly sane and substance touting old speeches... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 DEBATE

• The Supply and Demand Curve for "money"

  

  The traditional view is that "money" is a commodity like anything else, with independent lines for supply and demand:As a general way of illustrating the effect... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 DEBATE

• "To Build up London Solidly from Brighton to Northampton (which You Appear to...

  This old non-argument against whatever-the-person-saying-it-wants-it-to-be-an-argument-against was thrown at me recently. I have never suggested this, of course... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 DEBATE

• "Lamp-post Thieves Crash into Prada Hand Bags as They Flee"

  From The Evening Standard:Thieves who stole thousands of pounds worth of lamp-post had to abandon part of their haul when they crashed into the Prada shop windo... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2013 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (308)

  A comment at localgov: Land Value Tax was tried by Labour in the 1960s and was a catastrophic failure. Landowners simply refused to sell: why should they? Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 DEBATE

• "BCC Calls for Freeze on 'iniquitous’ Rent Increases"

  From The Telegraph: George Osborne should freeze commercial rents and overhaul the "iniquitous" and "broken" system of index-linked automatic rent increases, on... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 DEBATE

• "Cows Crash Through Weaver's Ceiling Smashing Tables and Chairs After Climbing...

  Another excellent headline, spotted by James Higham and View From The Solent in The Daily Mail:* Cattle had climbed onto Sue Marshall's sloped roof to reach... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 DEBATE

• Location Values Explained. The 1.15 Rule

  It can be frustrating arguing with f**k wit economists about LVT. One group of right-wing zealots will say that location values don't exists. They are merely th... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 DEBATE

• "Nurse in Intensive Care After Being Trampled by a Herd of Cows While Taking Par...

  Spotted by James Higham in The Daily Mail.It's a fantastic headline, but what actually triggered the attack was the same old low-tech animal companion:Sarah... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 DEBATE

• NOW That's What I Call a Fail!

  

  In Tuesday's Metro there was an article about Number 1 albums, the infographic tells us that the 300th Number 1 album was "NOW That's what I call music! 3",... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 DEBATE

• "The Black Swan Theory"

  From Wiki and Wiki: "The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes a film that comes as a surprise, has a major effect... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 DEBATE

• "Eurostar Bars Obese Frenchman"

  From the BBC A clinically obese Frenchman, prevented from flying home from the US by British Airways, has been refused travel on a Eurostar train from London... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 DEBATE

• Mordor Crowned UK City of Fun

  From uk.govMordor will be the next UK City of Fun - in 2017 - Culture Secretary Maria Miller announced today.Mordor faced stiff competition from the other... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 DEBATE

• "Half of Graduates Are Working in Jobs Which Do Not Need a Degree"

  Says the Daily Mail's headline, and the first bullet point it this: * 38% of over-21s are now graduates, up from 17% just two decades ago  Hardly surprising is... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 DEBATE