Markwadsworth

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• UK Travel Restrictions: Why Isn't the UK on Its Own Quarantine List?

  From the BBC: How is the quarantine list decided? The Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) - set up by the government to monitor coronavirus - works with the chief... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2020 DEBATE

• De-nesting Nested Radicals

  A "nested radical" is something like this "√(18 + 8√5)", in other words, the answer includes the square root of a (multiple or fraction of a)... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2020 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: When police arrived they found [Hancock] covered in blood as he told them 'I'm hardly going to deny it; look at me'. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2020 DEBATE

• Seriously, Can Anybody Explain This?

  From the BBC: Employed or self-employed people who test positive for the virus are required to isolate for 10 days, so those eligible for the extra money will... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 DEBATE

• Well, Yes and No.

  From The Guardian: It’s not true that Sweden offers an escape from the public health catastrophe. Whether you count the March-April death spike as a 'public... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 DEBATE

• "Police Call for Witnesses Regarding Second Walker Killed by Cows"

  Spotted by James Higham, Julia M and Tim Almond in The Guardian: A second fatality caused by cows has been made public by police, meaning there have been two... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 DEBATE

• Stupid People Who Think They've Said Something Clever

  I idly watched a few minutes of Jeremy Vine this morning, they were discussing covid-19. There was a very sensible lady called Beverley (surname escaped me)... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (485)

  One of the main KLN's is that "Landlords will pass on the tax to their tenants, so tenants will be worse off". I've done this one many times before, you have... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2020 DEBATE

• "Richmond School Teacher Dave Clark Killed by Cows"

  Spotted by James Higham and Julia M at the BBC: A spokesperson for North Yorkshire Police said the force had been called to a report of a man in his 50s being... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 DEBATE

• Is There Really a Dramatic Rise in Covid-19 Cases?

  There's a handy 'dashboard' at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/. The chart for 'Cases' shows an apparently dramatic increase, from about 800 new cases per day i... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2020 DEBATE

• They Own Land, Give Them Money.

  From gov.uk The government will provide a voucher worth up to £5,000 or £10,000 to help cover the cost of making energy efficient improvements to... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2020 DEBATE

• Covid-19 Deaths Per Million Population (Europe)

  

  Stat's from Worldometers, chart created using mapchart.net: Make of it what you will. There seems to be a gradient between north-east and south-west (reasons?). Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2020 DEBATE

• "Driver 'on His First Day' Rips Roof off Double Decker School Bus"

  From The Daily Mail: A driver on 'his first day,' ripped the roof off a double-decker school bus by smashing into a railway bridge - despite pupils' warning... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 DEBATE

• The New Blogger Template is Absolutely Awful

  

  Google are usually ones to get things right, like Google Maps and Streetview. Nobody 'wanted' this before it existed, but by now, everybody is used to it and... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 DEBATE

• Quarantine Madness

  At my daughter's school, one of the pupils in Year 8 had Covd-19 symptoms or tested positive (not sure). As a result, the whole of Year 8 has to stay at home fo... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2020 DEBATE

• There's One Interesting Bit in These Otherwise Fairly Meaningless Stat's

  From The Daily Mail: * More tenants ditch city living in favour of living in commuter towns and villages * Between May and August 2020, 34% of tenants wanted... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 DEBATE

• Fun Science Experiment

  

  We are told that water vapour is a greenhouse gas for the same reasons as CO2, i.e. it can absorb and re-emit infra red radiation. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 DEBATE

• Clouding the Issue

  From Skeptical Science: When skeptics use this argument [that water vapour is the strongest greenhouse gas], they are trying to imply that an increase in CO2... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2020 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: Gun dealer husband admits shooting dead his solicitor wife at their Grade-II listed farmhouse but DENIES murder because he has a 'mental... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (484)

  Emailed in by Ben W, from Prospect Magazine: The title is This practical fix shows why the chancellor should introduce a land value tax seems promising, but the... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2020 DEBATE