Markwadsworth

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• Don't Just Book It...

  From The Torygraph: As many as 150,000 Thomas Cook passengers have been left stranded abroad awaiting repatriation after the travel giant ceased trading. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2019 DEBATE

• We Are Considerably Greener Than You!

  From the BBC: The Scottish government's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions have been strengthened, as MSPs voted to put down a "net-zero" target in... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2019 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 27 September

  Only a 25% chance of rain tomorrow afternoon, so I will be at The Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards for an hour or two. Leicester Sq Tube, exit one and left into... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (23)

  Summary of thread started by James Medlock on Twitter. JM: One of the most underrated parts of a universal welfare state is the income-smoothing effect. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2019 DEBATE

• "Trump Plans Ban on Sale of Flavoured Handguns"

  From the BBC: US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will ban flavoured handguns, after a spate of shooting-related deaths. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2019 DEBATE

• I Don't Think That the Alarmists Believe the Horror Scenarios

  Most people who have jumped on the Alarmist band-wagon are arguing for things that they would have argued for anyway, which have little to do with reducing CO2... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 DEBATE

• "Downton"

  Her Indoors and I went to see this yesterday. As I expected, there is no real plot, just a few sketchy sub-plots with tenuous links to each other; the character... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2019 DEBATE

• Fun With Numbers

  The Lass and I were brainstorming yesterday, and between us, came up with this sequence/pattern, where x,y are positive integers. I am using the European... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2019 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up Tomorrow Friday 20 September

  Should be nice weather tomorrow, I will be at The Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards for an hour or two. Leicester Sq Tube, exit one and left into the alleyway. I'll... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (469)

  From Letting Agent Today: An influential think tank [the Institute for Public Policy Research] says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2019 DEBATE

• Shocked I Tell You, Shocked!

  From The Daily Mail: Bull-runner, 26, gets gored in the leg twice before being flipped into the air and dragged along the street in front of shocked onlookers... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 DEBATE

• First Day at University

  The Lad moved into student halls of residence at the weekend. (Rather ironically, his uni is within half an hour of our home, but he dug his heels in and... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 DEBATE

• Project Fear, Part the Manieth?

  

  This appeared in Facebook: On the face of it, it seems logical. Our oil refineries are going to be clobbered on the petrol they export to the EU, at the same... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2019 DEBATE

• "Woman Fighting for Her Life and Dog Killed After Cows Trample on Them"

  From The Mirror, via @ambushpredator: Woman fighting for her life and dog killed after cows trample on then They really ought to put warnings on tins of dog... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2019 DEBATE

• "Houses Are Assets Not Goods: Taking the Theory to the UK Data"

  From Bank Underground: In yesterday’s post* we argued that housing is an asset, whose value should be determined by the expected future value of rents, rather... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2019 DEBATE

• "The World's First Floating Nuclear Reactor"

  From The Daily Mail: The world's first floating nuclear reactor dubbed 'Chernobyl on ice' has arrived at its permanent location in the Arctic after a perilous... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2019 DEBATE

• "Protests as Five-week Parliament Suspension Begins"

  From the BBC: Parliament has officially been suspended for five weeks, with MPs not due back until 14 October. Amid unprecedented scenes in the Commons, some MP... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2019 DEBATE

• The Haywain by John Constable

  I had always assumed that the hay wagon in the famous painting was fording a shallow river that flows off between the trees in middle of the painting. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2019 DEBATE

• Awkward Conversations of Our Time...

  From the BBC: Sophie - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been on a day out with her family 18 months ago when she had... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 DEBATE

• James James' Chapter on LVT

  Reader James James writes: "I've just finished a draft chapter on Location Value Tax for a forthcoming book and would welcome your readers' comments and... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2019 DEBATE