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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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"The House That £100k Built"
Is a new series on BBC2. Episode 1/6 featured "A young pizza van owner from Leeds [who] has an ambitious plan to build a four-bedroom house. Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 DEBATE -
"The Devil Wears Pravda"
From Wiki and Wiki: Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: The BBC & Help To Buy Sell
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll, as suggested by Ralph Musgrave, were as follows:What do you appreciate most about the BBC? Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 DEBATE -
An Ed Milliband Whizzo Plan
From the IndependentCompanies will be forced to train a British apprentice for every foreign worker they take on if Labour win the next election, party leader E... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 DEBATE -
Desperate Straw Man Found. Now It's Idi Amin
I thought I'd post this link to an academic paper written by Zachary Gochenour and Bryan Caplan of George Mason University here, titled "A Search Theory Critiqu... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2013 DEBATE -
Using Infra Red for Area Bombing
I've seen lots of TV programmes about are bombing campaigns during World War II, to sum up, they didn't like bombing in the day time because that made it too... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2013 DEBATE -
Citizen's Income in Practice
From Le Monde Diplomatique, via Moneyweek, we get a report of a practical demonstration of the benefits of a basic, un-means-tested income for everyone:A new... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2013 DEBATE -
Things Which Came from Space
1. Life 2. Gold nuggets 3. Everything else FFS. The whole of planet earth came from space, it's just a load of rocks and iron and stuff which was whizzing... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 DEBATE -
Homeownerism Compared
While looking through some articles on the web, I came across this little paper; a conference submission from 2007 on: "HOUSING CONSUMPTION AND RISK SOCIETIES:... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 DEBATE -
Listed Buildings
From the BBCA yellow-roofed warehouse in Swindon that featured in a James Bond film has been given Grade II*-listed status.The Spectrum building, Renault's... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 DEBATE -
"Cyber-blackmailers Abusing Millions of UK Taxpayers"
From the BBC:British taxpayers are being blackmailed into funding the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), a quango which has threatened... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 DEBATE -
NIMBYs Of The Week
Via Khards at HPC, from The Leamington Observer:PROTESTERS in Southam have a "very good chance" of blocking the Holy Well housing development, according to... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 DEBATE -
Low Tech Valuation
Reading this post at Tim Worstall´s, and the first comment by Neil Craig:Then add Heinein’s twist – that the owner gets to set the value of his land – on... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 DEBATE -
"Stephen Hawking 'nervous' About Reaction to Shining Sequel"
From The BBC: Stephen Hawking has admitted he is nervous about the reaction to his forthcoming sequel to Stephen King's novel The Shining. Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 DEBATE -
OK, Here's a Plan Everybody Can Understand
Prompted by Ben W, and bearing in mind political considerations i.e. the fact that people consider income tax to be a worse tax than VAT or NIC and pensioners d... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 DEBATE -
F1 Film Rush: Call to Show the Truth About the 70s
From FASH:Rush – the new film about the 1970’s Formula One rivalry between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda – is a sharp reminder of how the polyester... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 DEBATE -
"Rush"
From imdb.com and Wiki:Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 progressive rock in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2013 DEBATE -
Well, It Sounds a Bit More Dramatic If You Put It Like That...
Daily Mail/This Is Money on top form again: London property prices are racing ahead with figures today confirming that the city is skewing averages for the... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2013 DEBATE -
Common Sense? (2)
Lola said on Monday that there was hope yet:[Nick Clegg] sayeth, in response to a question about Mansion Tax, something on the lines of 'we think that it is a... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2013 DEBATE -
Trade Union Leader Talks Sense: Shock
From an article in today's Evening Standard celebrating the house price bubble in London and the South East:TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said:... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 DEBATE