Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Tee Hee

  From The Telegraph: Buckfast sales in Scotland surged 40 per cent after Nicola Sturgeon introduced alcohol minimum pricing, according to an official analysis... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2022 DEBATE

• Ha Ha, Serves Him Right.

  I met Kwasi Kwarteng once briefly back in 2006 or 2007, when I was doing my infamous Tax Simplification proposal for The Bow Group. The link to their site is... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2022 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (495)

  Sobers came up with a corker recently. My thinking is that trying to establish pseudo-accurate valuations for each individual home is pointless, and we should d... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2022 DEBATE

• They Own Land! Give Them Money!

  The Lib Dems step up to the Home-Owner-Ist plate. From the BBC: Homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages amid rising interest rates should be able to apply... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2022 DEBATE

• More Climate Change Bollocks

  Help to reduce the carbon footprint of your parcel by up to 90%* By diverting your parcel to a ParcelShop or locker began an email to me from a courier. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2022 DEBATE

• Sorry to Have to Disappoint You, But...

  From the BBC: A toddler from West Dunbartonshire has stunned family and friends with his extraordinary maths and language skills. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2022 DEBATE

• Question? (From a 'not a Lawyer')

  Is 'English Common law a product of the free market?If so, Statute Law might be thought of as 'nationalised law?The difference between, what is lawful (Common... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (494)

  I haven't done one of these for ages, mainly because I've done them all and Sobers isn't trying to invent new ones. However, I tend to ramble on a bit with my... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2022 DEBATE

• Climate Science: Adaptation Not Necessarily a Good Thing and Evolution is Much...

  From The Guardian: Narwhals have been delaying their seasonal migration because of the impact of the climate crisis, suggesting an ability to adapt to the... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2022 DEBATE

• Climate Science Breakthrough - Water Flows Uphill!

  From Sky News: Just Stop Oil vow to keep causing disruption - and have this message for people who are affected... Morgan Trowland, a 39-year-old civil engineer... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2022 DEBATE

• Headline News: Greece Doesn't Use Much Electricity in the Night-time!

  From Sky News: Greece breaks a new record by running the country entirely on renewable energy for five hours Well done, you think, reducing its reliance on... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2022 DEBATE

• In My Next Life.....

  ... I am coming back as something decorative and stupid. People will simply write me cheques for how I look.In this life I am certainly not decorative but... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2022 DEBATE

• Pension Funds - Irrational Behaviour

  OK, you are a pension fund. You have promised recently retired Mr Saver a lifetime annuity of £2,000 a year and to match this, you have just bought some... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2022 DEBATE

• Modern Monetary Theory - Kwasi but Twue

  The MMT view of things is perfectly simple. 1. When the government spends money, it is printing or creating money. It does not need to 'borrow' money to spend,... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2022 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: There's Nothing Wrong with Complexity

  The expression "small is beautiful" is well known from a book of that tile written by economist E.F.Schumacher. A friend has just sent me a link to this blog... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2022 DEBATE

• Science Deniers and the "isothermal Atmosphere" (Now It's Getting Silly #2)

  The Alarmists don't usually have the guts to say it out loud, but there is a sub-school of psuedo-scientists among them who seem to believe that in the absence... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2022 DEBATE

• "To Understand the Scale of the Climate Emergency, Look at Hurricanes"

  ... says everybody's favourite go-to source of Climate Change Porn. Let's follow their advice and look at long term records. And... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2022 DEBATE

• Irritable B*****d Syndrome

  Good news and bad news. Henry Law (of the LVT Campaign, but that's not relevant) and I were chatting last weekend. I had a moan about my condition, which starte... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2022 DEBATE

• RPI/CPI. Just What Do They Measure?

  These indices affect me on a day to day basis as we struggle to preserve our investors wealth. But what actually do they measure? Well, it's not 'inflation'. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2022 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (494)

  I don't know if we've done this one before, but: Carol Wilcox commented on a Facebook post in the Land Value Taxation Campaign group - "it's not affordable for... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2022 DEBATE