Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• "World's Oldest Pornographic 'magazine' Discovered in Scottish Field"

  From the BBC:Arseologists believe they have discovered the world's oldest porn "magazine" under an Aberdeenshire hedge. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Ignoring for the Moment Whether It is True Or Not,

  given recent DWP form on "statistics" but just assuming it is true, what was it that the Job Centre staff told these people? Was it "if you get a job the cap... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Public Health Policy Quiz Answers (1)...

  Last Wednesday, due to the news that e-cigarettes might become regulated as medicines, I posed three questions.Question A was:A) 93,489 of these products were... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Fun Online Polls:

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:How do you think you'll vote at the 2014 EU Parliament election?BNP 2%Conservative 5%Green Party... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Each Year, an Area of Countryside the Size of Southampton is "randomly Despoiled...

  "Today, simply relaxing planning controls wouldn't just see creeping suburbia: it would allow random development on any countryside that someone would sell". Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "We Need Unions. But Not as Labour's Bankers"

  Lola's brief post, questioning the notion of the "fiscal multiplier" ended up generating 41 comments so far, and DBC Reed kept referring to an editorial in... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "owner-occupiers Aged 55 and Over Account for 56% of the UK's Total Equity"

  Older homeowners accused of muscling in on first-time buyers First-time buyers lose out as cash-rich retirees downsize and snap up smaller homes outright"If the... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Solving Suko Using Simultaneous Equations

  

  I had to take The Lass and her friend to the pictures last week. I didn't want to watch the film, so I bought myself a Times newspaper and can of Monster "energ... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Is It True? Will Universal Credit Make Work Pay – So That People Are Better off...

  A much repeated claim made by Iain Duncan Smith, Lord Freud and junior ministers at the DWP is that it will - Universal Credit will make work pay – so that... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "Man Killed by a 1.5 Tonne* Cow After It Crashes Through His Corrugated Iron...

  H/t Steve Abbott, from The Daily Mail:A Brazilian man died after a cow crashed through the roof of his home and landed on top of him as he lay sleeping in his... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "Ban School Dinners So Children Eat Healthy Packed Lunches, Headteachers Urged"

  From The Daily Mail:School dinners are helping to fuel a rise in childhood obesity, Government advisers will warn today as they set out plans to revive packed... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Just Horsin' Around

  Colin Wiles in Inside Housing:One of the frequent arguments put forward by countryside campaigners opposed to house building is that greenfield sites are... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• South Pacific Rim (musical)

  From Wiki and Wiki:In the near future, on a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian giant monsters, Ngana and Jerome, identified as... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "Dog Walker Critically Ill After Angry Cow SAT on Top of Her"

  Emailed in by JuliaM, from The Soaraway Sun:A DOG walker was in a critical condition today after she was barged by a stampeding cow — which then SAT on top of... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• Real Life Weasley House Aka The Burrow

  

  I can't find a decent image of the actual Weasley house from the film because it only existed as CGI anyway, and appeared to shape-shift between films, popping... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "A Departure from Normal Practice"

  The Indie is currently running an exclusive reporting that "David Cameron is trying to force the head of Britain’s civil service - Sir Bob Kerslake - out of... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS

• "Your Wife is Heading for £3,000 Funding Gap"

  From the BBC:Your wife needs to take urgent decisions about restricting her shopping trips to a smaller number of retail outlets to avoid a growing funding... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS