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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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First Rule of Home-Owner-Ist Club
House prices may not fall, whatever the cost (to the taxpayer). From The Torygraph: Government failure to provide support for struggling homeowners will... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2022 DEBATE -
The English Rain Dance
In some cultures, if there's not enough rain, they do ritual dances and so on, I doubt very much that they work. Apart from attracting tourists. Read more
Posted on 18 August 2022 DEBATE -
Scientists Paid to Find Evidence Find Evidence - Shock
From the BBC: The record temperatures in the UK last week would have been "almost impossible" without human-induced climate change, leading scientists have... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2022 DEBATE -
Cattle News
From The Daily Mail: * Sharon Eley, 51, was surround by 20 cows who headbutted her in a brutal attack in the Lancashire countryside. Read more
Posted on 15 August 2022 DEBATE -
Mind Your Decisions - Maths Fail
Watch the first minute or so of his recent video, until he's explained the question, then press pause: He rambles on for another five minutes explaining,... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2022 DEBATE -
Covid-19 - Four-month Waves (part 3)
AS I said in March: "Looking at that, I won't be surprised if there's another peak in June 2022." It seems that the various variants of the virus are mutating... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2022 DEBATE -
It's Like Having a New Car!
The man at the garage had been saying for some time that the (pre-facelift 5-speed) gear box in my MR2 is 'very noisy', whatever that means. Read more
Posted on 06 August 2022 DEBATE -
Beyoncé - Good at Singing and Dancing, Rubbish at Filthy Lyrics
Ms Knowles, a squeaky clean living God-Botherer in her early 40s, decided to have a go at a bit of 'dirty talk' in one of the the songs on her latest... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2022 DEBATE -
Sliced and Diced
For argument's sake, let us assume that this from the BBC is actually a good interpretation of what actually happened, and the whole thing is not false... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2022 DEBATE -
"Mortgage Rules Eased as Bank of England Scraps Affordability Test Stokes the...
From The Independent: Mortgage borrowing rules have been eased by the Bank of England making it easier for thousands of potential homebuyers to get on the... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2022 DEBATE -
Supply and Demand
Confused.com has a function which shows the lowest petrol/diesel prices within a certain radius of a chosen postcode. It told me that the garage a few miles up... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2022 DEBATE -
Why "Climate Science" Isn't Really Science (2)
Follow-up to Bayard's post of Wednesday. For sure, some Climate Scientists exaggerate or make false claims, but that doesn't invalidate anything. For example,... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2022 DEBATE -
Why Climate "Science" Isn't Really Science.
Ferreting around on my hard disk, looking for an old document, I found this: The People Versus the Climate Research Unit (CRU) by Willis Eschenbach*, which date... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2022 DEBATE -
The Other Side of the UK House Price/credit Bubble
The papers are full of articles suggesting that the house price bubble might be about to burst soon. Experience tells us that they are jumping the gun and the... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2022 DEBATE -
Coping with a Heatwave
1. Leave all upstairs windows open when you go to bed. 2. When you wake up bathed in sweat at some ungodly hour in the morning, open the curtains and windows... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2022 DEBATE -
Light Passing Through a Pane, a Prism and Two Prisms
Follow up to this post to illustrate the contradictions. Light going through a pane is easy enough. All colours are bent by the same amount on entering and on... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2022 DEBATE -
Just Stop Oil... Price Hikes?
The Just Stop Oil/ XR people don't understand science, but fair enough, they are at least intellectually consistent from there on in. They do shit like gluing... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2022 DEBATE -
"Refraction of Light Through Rectangular Glass Slab and Glass Prism"
Here is a great explanation of how to work out what comes out of the other side of the slab/prism. I'm sure he'd get top marks in an exam, and on the basis of... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2022 DEBATE -
Best Laugh of the Day - So Far
Of course if you didn't laugh you'd cry....Bank of England staff demand big pay rise (DT - paywall)Well, considering that they print their own pay anyway, and... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2022 DEBATE -
The South Will Rise Again!
Except, the Confederacy never really went away. - They kept slavery by the back door until the advent of World War II. They arrested people (including a few... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2022 DEBATE