Markwadsworth

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• Yes, but That's the Same Thing, They're Doing Double Counting.

  Another failed debunking-the-debunkers attempt by Skeptical Science: ---------------------- Myth: Each unit of CO2 you put into the atmosphere has less and... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form, Nearly

  From The Daily Mail: A dog trainer who once worked for Princess Anne is suspected of murdering his wife at the cottage where Boris Johnson grew up. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 DEBATE

• "My Advice for Rishi Sunak: Superforecasters Won’t Make Your Budget Better"

  Stephen King, HSBC's Senior Economic Adviser gloriously misses the point in yesterday's Evening Standard: Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2020 DEBATE

• Barclays' New "Confirmation of Payee" Service.

  Email received from Barclays today: Hi Customer, What's new? I'm sure they'll tell me... A new service called Confirmation of Payee has been designed to help... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2020 DEBATE

• "It Never Rains but It Pours"

  

  The Guardian appears to be taking this expression literally. Guardian reader's letter, May 2019: Weather forecasts are ignoring the drought in England Paul Brow... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2020 DEBATE

• [Adjective] [noun] - Film Titles in the 1980s

  Her Indoors was watching Basic Instinct as I drifted off to sleep yesterday, and it reminded me of something that has been bugging me for the last thirty years. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2020 DEBATE

• "Students Hit by 14-day University Lecturers Strike"

  

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  Posted on 20 February 2020 DEBATE

• More Wildlife Fun with The Guardian

  As a follow up to Bayard's beaver post (see below), I'll up the ante... From The Guardian: The study by University of Sussex researchers raises fears that bees... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 DEBATE

• Beaver Crap

  The Guardian is extolling the virtues of beavers in controlling the water flow in rivers Further down the article I found this gem, a piece of getting it arse... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (479)

  From the Evening Standard, the usual Homey bleatings re the mooted Mansion Tax: Former Westminster council leader Nickie Aiken, now a London MP, summed up the... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2020 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers - Follow up

  Statement from my earlier post "The relative length of the height is simply N x 2 'units'." Bayard's comment: "I can't see from where you derive that. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2020 DEBATE

• My Three Years on The Naughty List Are Over!!

  As I might have mentioned three years ago, those thieves up in Liverpool caught me in a speed trap* which must have netted them £10,000's a day.That was... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2020 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers - Right-angle Triangles and Side Length Ratios.

  

  Maths problem - you are told that one side of a 'right triangle' (as the Americans call them), is a certain fraction (1/n) of the total perimeter (the length... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2020 DEBATE

• Vandalised Wall Vandalised

  From the BBC Vandalism by Banksy has been defaced just 48 hours after it appeared. The vandalism, featuring a young girl firing red flowers from a catapult,... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2020 DEBATE

• Electric Vehicles - Not Particularly Energy Efficient

  The conclusion to my previous post, Fun with numbers - what if we all had electric cars was this: If electricity generation goes up 40% [to charge all the... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2020 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers - What If We All Had Electric Cars

  Q - would we have enough electricity generating capacity if each household in the UK had one electric car? A - I don't know, but here's how I would guesstimate... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2020 DEBATE

• How is This Going to Happen?

  Stupidity from Shapps via the BBC Last week, the government sparked industry concern after bringing the date forward from 2040 to 2035 in a bid to hit... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2020 DEBATE

• Doesn't Make Sense, Unless the World is Even More Corrupt Than You'd Think.

  From City AM: Robert Johnson, who edits the running site LetsRun.com, went so far as to say that those who have benefited from [Nike's apparently excellent... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2020 DEBATE

• "Natwest Three Banker Slams 'pernicious' US-UK Extradition Treaty"

  From City AM: Writing in The Times today, David Bermingham, one of the so-called Natwest Three, attacked the unfairness of the extradition treaty between the... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2020 DEBATE

• "Experts Slam Business Rates Appeals System"

  From City AM: Property experts today said the business rate appeals system is a "time bomb" as the backlog of claims and challenges spiked. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2020 DEBATE