Markwadsworth

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• Car Hits Pub

  From the BBC: A car smashed through the front of a pub hours before it was due to open for the first time in nearly four months. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2020 DEBATE

• Fun With Numbers - Right Angle Triangles (again)

  The side lengths in a right angle triangle follow a nice pattern - the square of [the length of] the hypotenuse = the sum of the squares of [the lengths of ] th... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 DEBATE

• Yeah! Go Retailers!

  From The Guardian: Landsec, the property group behind the Trinity Leeds shopping centre and Bluewater in Kent, said struggling retailers paid less than a third... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 DEBATE

• Doesn't Sound Too Terrible to Me.

  From The Guardian: England's privatised water firms paid £57bn in dividends since 1991 In the past 10 years, the companies have paid out £17bn in... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2020 DEBATE

• The BBC Does Science, but They Are Useless at Maths

  

  From the BBC: Astronomers have found a previously unseen type of object circling a distant star. It could be the core of a gas world like Jupiter, offering an... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2020 DEBATE

• Sounds a Bit Racist to Me

  From Microsoft News: As Leicester became the first city in the UK to be placed in a local lockdown following a spike of coronavirus cases, there are concerns... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2020 DEBATE

• Weekly Deaths - All Causes - E&W - up to Week 25

  

  Data from the ONS. By that metric, we're not quite at undershoot yet, but pretty close. The BBC reckons we are, by a slightly different metric. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2020 DEBATE

• "Meat Plants Likely Source of Any Coronavirus Second Wave"

  From The Evening Standard: Asked during a London Assembly investigation into coronavirus for the most likely sources of future outbreaks in the capital,... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2020 DEBATE

• Why Monopolists Prefer VAT to Corporation Tax

  Dinero, in the comments here: "It occurs to me that VAT has a monopoly profit tax element to it. [In that it taxes the profit margin on a transaction rather tha... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2020 DEBATE

• By How Much Would UK Tax Receipts Fall If VAT Were Scrapped Outright?

  Physiocrat, here, is very radical on this: VAT costs and losses 1) Admin - not very much as the costs are transferred to business. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2020 DEBATE

• Lockdown is a Golden Opportunity to Realign the Academic Year with the Calendar...

  My daughter, who is in her first year of doing A-levels came up with this plan, which I thought was pretty good: 1. Schools and universities all start again in... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (29)

  From The Scotsman: Helpfully, the former Edinburgh SNP MSP and local government minister Marco Biagi has done some sums, calculating that rolling in all benefit... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2020 DEBATE

• Classic VAT DoubleThink

  The myth is that VAT is a relatively benign tax because it is a "tax on consumption". Anybody who knows anything about tax incidence and bothers to look at... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2020 DEBATE

• 'Never Kill a Job, Mate. Never Kill a Job'

  

  These words were spoken, through a just alight dog end stuck to his bottom lip, by a labourer in a potato merchant to a friend of mine who was his foreman and... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2020 DEBATE

• When Animals Attack: Texas Mayor Killed In Donkey Attack

  Cow attacks? Those crazy Texans have gone one better. From Bossip: Hollywood Park Mayor William “Bill” Bohlke was killed by his 500-pound donkey in an apparent... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2020 DEBATE

• Zoë Williams Gets It Right on VAT

  Well nearly, but she's done some proper homework. From The Guardian: News of the government’s plans surfaced, as they always do these days, in a private briefin... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (480)

  "You Georgists just hate landlords!" and "You Georgists are just envious of people with big back gardens!" The latter is nonsense, we do have a big back garden... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2020 DEBATE

• "Can You Get a Mortgage on a House Being Sold Below Market Value?"

  Mike W spotted a rather strange Q A in The Guardian, and added "If I make an offer and you accept, I always assumed that was 'market value'. Indeed, 'marked to... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2020 DEBATE

• Slaughterhouse 5 - Maybe the Vegetarians Have a Point

  Is there a pattern emerging here..? From the BBC: Many experts think Covid-19 likely originated in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, which has been... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2020 DEBATE

• I'm Shelving That Plan for a Book on the Real Greenhouse Effect...

  

  It turns out that greater and better qualified minds have been explaining the real reason for The Greenhouse Effect since the late 19th century, all to no avail. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2020 DEBATE