Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Bigger, Softer, Faster!

  

  I started again from scratch. 36" deck, 8.5" trucks, 75mm wheels etc. Everything is about 20% - 25% bigger than the first one (on the left for comparison).... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2022 DEBATE

• Home-Owner-Ist Understands Economics - Shock

  From The Evening Standard: But while home buyers may welcome a potential stamp duty cut, it could also lead to them paying bigger monthly mortgage bills, a... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2022 DEBATE

• More Circular Logic from the Science Deniers

  I submitted my simple explanation as to why Earth's average surface temperature is what it is* over on hard-core pseudo-scientific Alarmist website Science of... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2022 DEBATE

• The Roman Warm Period

  It is widely accepted by historians that there was a Roman Warm Period of a few centuries, straddling either side of AD 1. When it started to cool down, there... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2022 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not.

  I've had a change of heart on how to 'sell' a CI, to deflect the KCNs that it would be 'unaffordable' and/or discourage people from working. Whether it's... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2022 DEBATE

• It's Green, Not Red, White and Blue.

  This article fleshes out the suspicion I had that the whole gas crisis has far more to do with an unholy alliance between Greenies and energy speculators than i... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2022 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizens' Income, Not

  I came across a link to Europe's New Social Reality: The Case Against Universal Basic Income and thought to check which killer arguments the author was using.... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2022 DEBATE

• Which Maniac Agreed to This?

  From the BBC: The government plans to move nuclear and renewable electricity generators to lower price contracts to cut bills, Prime Minister Liz Truss has said. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2022 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Puppy Gets It!

  From ITV.com: It's a grim time in the fun business. In Southend-on-Sea, the owner of Sealife says he may have to euthanise animals in his "zooquarium" because... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2022 DEBATE

• EU - Doing the Sort of Thing It Should Have Been Doing All Along.

  From the BBC: But the focus now is on finding a European solution. And not a few EU figures, French President Emmanuel Macron included, have said they'd love th... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2022 DEBATE

• High Oil and Gas Prices - Probably Just a Short Term Thing.

  Sure, gas prices are stupid high at the moment; oil is high but coming down (and the government should do some short-term patching up for those on lowest income... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2022 DEBATE

• Rents Increase and Rent Arrears Increase - Seems a Bit Mad

  In a normal world, landlords charge as much as they can get, full stop. There's no point trying to charge more than that because you will get lots of voids or... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2022 DEBATE

• Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining.

  From Energy Newsline: British drivers that took the plunge to go green and pick up an electric vehicle (EV) may now bear the brunt of sky-high energy prices fro... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2022 DEBATE

• As I Was Saying Eleven Years Ago...

  From Petapixel, 30/8/2022 "French Officials Use [Google] Satellite Photos and AI to Spot Unregistered Pools. It appears that France, like Greece, taxes... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2022 DEBATE

• Get Back to the Office, You Plebs!

  From The Telegraph: Home workers are likely to be driven back to the office en masse this winter, experts have suggested, because of the added cost. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2022 DEBATE

• "Find the Area of the Square"

  

  Another one from Mind Your Decisions that YT suggested I watch a week or two ago: He then does it the obvious and quick but rather boring way, using Pythag. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2022 DEBATE

• Groupthink

  I've just come across a reference to this book, Victims of Groupthink, A psychological study of foreign-policy decisions and fiascoes. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2022 DEBATE

• So That Makes It OK to Blow Her Up, Does It?

  The BBC reports the death of Darya Dugin when her car was blown up. After half a page on which neither disapproval of the act, nor any sympathy for the relative... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2022 DEBATE

• Call That a Consensus? This is a Consensus!

  It looks like real scientists have just about had enough of the crap that the climate "scientists" spout. The so called "consensus" on the anthropogenic nature... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2022 DEBATE

• Sadiq Khan - Does He Actually Believe the Crap He Spouts?

  From The Telegraph: Sadiq Khan blamed the cost of living crisis for the crimewave sweeping London as police faced a backlash over a recent spate of murders... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2022 DEBATE