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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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"It’s Time for Tech Firms to End Their Insane Global Patent Wars"
Allister Heath, good on details but gloriously missing the bigger picture as per usual:Patents were originally designed to spur innovators by giving them a way... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2013 DEBATE -
"Three Tragic Cases of Toddlers Killed by Window Blind Cords"
From The Daily Mail: Alexandra Lucy Hoegh, the daughter of one of Britain's richest men, died in October 2012 after becoming tangled in the cords of a window... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2013 DEBATE -
"UK Steps up Typhoon Relief Effort"
From Panay News: MANILA – British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced further assistance to the super typhoon relief efforts. Read more
Posted on 14 November 2013 DEBATE -
Serfs and Slaves
Fascinating and easy to remember facts from history: The Russian serfs were officially emancipated in 1861. Slaves in the USA (the Confederate bits) were not... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2013 DEBATE -
Hirschman’s Rhetoric of Reaction
Via Ian H, article by Alex Marsh:Overall, the report reads rather like it was written by backward induction. That is, it started from the statement which can... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2013 DEBATE -
"Fury as African American Staff Tell Hospital They Will Not Care for Racist...
From The Daily Mail:Two African American care home employees have angered their bosses by refusing to work with a white patient who despises black people. Read more
Posted on 13 November 2013 DEBATE -
"How to Assess a Building Plot"
From buildstore.co.uk This fact sheet gives you the usual commonsense rules on how to work out the maximum price you should pay for a building plot: Make sure... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2013 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: Burdens on Society
The mainstream/Homey myth is that it is good if people buy their own homes, because that way they are not a burden on society in their old age. This is also... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2013 DEBATE -
Of Course.
Colin Wiles on top form at Inside Housing: I did some more digging and discovered that there are around 2,000 18-hole golf courses in England as well as hundred... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2013 DEBATE -
"Christmas Donation Frenzy Ruins Lives, Says Archbishop"
From The Evening Standard:Families should not make their lives “miserable” at Christmas by trying to keep up with “ridiculous” and “absurd” pressures to give... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2013 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Poppies & Pomposity
The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:When is it appropriate to start wearing a poppy? Late October - 10%1st - 4th November - 26%5th - 7th... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2013 DEBATE -
"Thor: The Spice World"
From Wiki and Wiki Eons ago, Bor (Tony Curran), the father of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), clashes with the Dark Elf Malekith (Christopher Eccleston), who seeks to... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2013 DEBATE -
"This is All About Prising Lazy People off the Property Ladder”
From the BBC: Estate agents have reported a strong uptake in the first month of the government's extended Help to Sell guarantee scheme. Read more
Posted on 11 November 2013 DEBATE -
Social Networks
From The GuardianFacebook made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2013 DEBATE -
"UK Property Taxes Highest in Developed World, Says Think Tank"
Policy Exchange can anything they like, knowing it would go down well with the Homeys at the Mailexpressgraph, but it was even faithfully trotted out in The... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2013 DEBATE -
Brand Marketing
Russell Brand's appearance on Newsnight seems to have caused quite a stir and gained a lot of whatever is the internet equivalent of column inches. Read more
Posted on 10 November 2013 DEBATE -
More Faux Lib Fun with Murray Rothbard
Kj draws my attention to this:In the September 15, 1970 issue of The Libertarian Forum, (Vol. II #18), prominent libertarian economist Murray Rothbard wrote:"Th... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2013 DEBATE -
Executive Salaries
There's a head of steam building up about executive salaries. Not only has Oxfam decided to weigh in on the side of the Living Wage, but, as Matthew Lynn report... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2013 DEBATE -
"Mix Control"
There was finally a sensible article about retail and 'The High Street' in today's City AM Forum The thing is worth reading in full, but it appears to boil dow... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2013 DEBATE -
£150 Per Square Inch.
From The Evening Standard: Chelsea property experts said the sites could be worth as much as £1 billion when fully developed. Ed Mead of agents Douglas Gordo... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2013 DEBATE