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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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Good Spending
From the BBCA new visitor centre at Stonehenge will open in time for the winter solstice, English Heritage has said.The £27m project also includes grassing... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2013 DEBATE -
Life Copies Satire
From The Daily Mail: As the Conservatives gear up for their conference in Manchester this week, Prime Minister David Cameron has given his party a boost by... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2013 DEBATE -
How Buggered is France? Very Says Switzerland!
And the Confederation Helvetica is not taking any chances according to France 24Switzerland's army simulated a French attack against their country in a... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2013 DEBATE -
Peter Lilley on Top Form
From City AM Forum: So it is with most merchants of global warming doom. Their models forecast that, as carbon dioxide emissions rise, the world's temperature... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2013 DEBATE -
Osborne's Help To Waste Time Programme
From the IndependentIn his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, the Chancellor will unveil the full requirements of a £300m-a-year Help... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2013 DEBATE -
"Quick! Pour More Accelerant on the Fire!"
Via Ennui at HPC.It must be clear to everybody that the Conservatives' re-election hopes are largely pinned on stoking a nice house price bubble before 2015 to... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2013 DEBATE -
The Homey Game
This is a follow up to an earlier post about building near Lydiard Park in SwindonFrom Swindon CouncilSwindon Borough Council is disappointed with a Planning... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2013 DEBATE -
Land, Oil, Gas, Rents, Price Caps Etc
1. The knee-jerk industry response to Red Ed's musings about price caps for energy prices was that "We can't help it if world market prices for oil and gas go... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2013 DEBATE -
"The Loneliness of The Long Distance Blade Runner Runner"
From Wiki, Wiki and Wiki: In Los Angeles, November 2019, retired Princeton student Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) is detained by officer Gaff (Edward James... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2013 DEBATE -
"Help to Buy: Osborne Asks Bank of England to Keep Closer Watch"
From the BBC:Chancellor George Osborne has asked the Bank of England to take a bigger role in ensuring his Help to Buy housing scheme fuels a property boom. Read more
Posted on 27 September 2013 DEBATE -
Interesting Comment on Immigration
Nod2glod at HPC, in the context of something completely different:For me the key to the migration issue is entitlements. Only people who feel they are entitled... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2013 DEBATE -
Makes You Proud to Be Human
From the BBC: Barely half an hour after they were jolted by a major earthquake on Tuesday, people of the Pakistani coastal town of Gwadar had another shock... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2013 DEBATE -
"Little White House On The Prairie Down"
From Wiki and Wiki: Although predominantly a drama, there are some comedic moments. The show's central characters are Charles Ingalls (Channing Tatum), a U.S. Read more
Posted on 26 September 2013 DEBATE -
The House That £100k Built (Episode 2)
I'm watching the second episode on BBC2 right now, it's exactly the same as the first.The "self-builder", widowed Sumati (which the voice over pronounces... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2013 DEBATE -
More NCEisms
Following on from the "A Search-Theoretic Critique of Georgism" post earlier, I found this elaboration by one of the authors here. Read more
Posted on 25 September 2013 DEBATE -
Indian Bicycle Marketing
The Red and Blue Armies have declared Phoney War and as their battleground have chosen a storm in a teacup over very minor tweaks to two of our relatively less... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2013 DEBATE -
Hard Working Houses?
As mentioned by the ONS and picked up by the FT Alphaville team, London house prices are up 9.7 per cent over the 12 months to July. With the average London... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2013 DEBATE -
Aditya Chakrabortty Snatches Failure from the Jaws of Success
I wouldn't normally link to the Guardian, but there's an article that's really worth reading just to grab all the various facts laid out in it about the... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2013 DEBATE -
Homey-In-Chief Emeritus* on Top Form
From City AM: WHAT, exactly, does the Labour party think it is doing? It wants to hike – yes, hike – corporation tax if it is elected in 2015, the latest of a... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2013 DEBATE -
Life Copies Satire
James Frayne in this morning's City AM: [Ed] Miliband has a very narrow mission this week. He must deal with concerns in Westminster about his character to end... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 DEBATE