Markwadsworth

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• Amazon Prime Days

  They spent a lot of money advertising their Prime Days, which appear to be 15 and 16 July. 15 and 16 clearly aren't prime numbers, so that's a bad start. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2019 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Miller & Modigliani Theorem

  The first part of the original M M Theorem makes perfect sense: The Modigliani-Miller theorem (M M) states that the market value of a company is calculated usin... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2019 DEBATE

• University Open Days

  Funnily enough, we've been doing some of this, so interesting to see an article:- "It's important to talk about the cost of going to open days," says Rachel, a... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2019 DEBATE

• Can Someone Tell Me the Truth About This?

  Madeleine Grant, on High Streets, wrote this Our business rates, levied on the rental value of the premises, penalise physical shops in favour of e-commerce... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 DEBATE

• Twisted PC Logic Of The Day

  From the BBC: A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor has refused to be interviewed by a female reporter unless she brings a male colleague with her. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up Tomorrow Friday 12 July

  Looks like nice-ish weather tomorrow, so John McCone and I will be at The Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards for an hour or two. Leicester Sq Tube, exit one and left... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 DEBATE

• Gloriously Muddled Thinking on Corporation Tax.

  Article in City AM this morning by John Penrose MP who "is Jeremy Hunt's policy guru" (doesn't show up online yet). After some fawning drivel about the German... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2019 DEBATE

• Daily Mail On Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: Romanian national Cristian Sabou was detained on a European Arrest Warrant this morning at his address in the northern town of Dej over... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 DEBATE

• Another Good Reason to Legalise Cannabis

  From the BBC: Teenagers are less likely to use cannabis in places where the drug has been legalised, a new study suggests. Researchers at Montana State... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 DEBATE

• But It's Sort of OK If Just Men Are Murdered?

  From the BBC: Papua New Guinea: Women and children killed in tribal massacre On Sunday, seven people - four men and three women - were killed in Munima village. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 DEBATE

• Fun With Numbers

  The two articles are unremarkable, given their source. What amused me is that they are one day apart: Polly Toynbee in The Guardian 25 June 2019: Out in the rea... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2019 DEBATE

• "We Could Be Wiped out Like the Coal Industry"

  From the BBC: Some farmers have said without long-term guarantees about future subsidy levels, farms could disappear from the landscape. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2019 DEBATE

• Pointless Bureaucracy

  I got chatting to an immigration lawyer at the weekend (friend of a friend) who told me that the whole thing is a futile waste of time and money. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2019 DEBATE

• When Did Post-war Romanticism Begin?

  

  There's a few people showing these two images on Twitter, I think a before and after photograph of Birmingham. Lots of people horrified at the destruction of... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2019 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: "It's All About Lack of Supply"

  I was involved in another Twitter spat recently with a Faux Lib who insisted that high house prices are all about lack of supply. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2019 DEBATE

• Cannabis-related Twattishness

  The Evening Standard has launched a laudable campaign to get cannabis legalised in the UK, hooray, nonetheless, the article highlights some cases of extreme... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2019 DEBATE

• Diagonal Comparison

  From The Guardian readers' letters page: Nuclear power is helping to drive the climate crisis Has the Confederation of British Industry got its head in the sand... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2019 DEBATE

• The "Glastonbury 2019 Clean Up"?. I Call Bullshit.

  An article in (at? I'm never sure) Somerset Live contrasts the almost pristine state of the field after this year's festival with the amount of tents and rubbis... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  It's the first bullet point in yesterday's article on the death of a stowaway: First picture of Oxford graduate sunbather who had miracle escape when frozen... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (463)

  Sorry to return to the ASI dirge of two years ago, but I saw this excerpt trotted out elsewhere as the inevitable 'but...' in an otherwise fairly favourable... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2019 DEBATE