Markwadsworth

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• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (462)

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Spectator, in among the shite are these classics: The report’s editor, George Monbiot, has not thought through the unintended... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2019 DEBATE

• More Climate Change Consensus Contradictions

  Theory #1; Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (22)

  Emailed in by Sackerson, from the Foundation for Economic Education. The first paragraphs are just lies and distortions, skip those and get to the KCNs:... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2019 DEBATE

• "The Landmine That Just Got Laid for Elizabeth Warren"

  From PoliticoMagazine: The moment came when the 10 participants were asked, by a show of hands, who would dispense entirely with private health insurance. Only... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2019 DEBATE

• What I Wish Prince William Had Said...

  From the BBC: Prince William has said he would "fully support" one of his uncles if he were gay, but admitted he would "worry" about the added pressures he woul... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2019 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Metro: I think it's only fair we help out Harry and Meghan with their home alterations, as I imagine their mortgage payments must be enormous. Bruce,... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 DEBATE

• How to Visualise the Dangerous Increase in CO2 Levels Since Pre-industrial Times

  

  The two squares represent relative levels of nitrogen and oxygen as white (nearly 80%); average water vapour as darker blue (2%); peak water vapour as pale... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 DEBATE

• "Selfie Deaths: 259 People Reported Dead Seeking the Perfect Picture"

  From the BBC: News reports... were analysed to compile the study. They found that selfie-related deaths are most common in India, Russia, the United States and... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2019 DEBATE

• Bill Gates Has Rare Honest Moment

  From CNBC: Gates admitted his “greatest mistake ever” was allowing Google to develop Android — one of Apple’s biggest smartphone competitors — before Microsoft... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2019 DEBATE

• Tip-top Climate Change Porn

  From The Independent: Plummeting insect numbers. A sixth mass extinction. Thinning of ice sheets. Sea level rise. Wildfires in California. Thawing Arctic... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2019 DEBATE

• More School Statistics...

  ... which most people would have guessed anyway if they thought about it for a few moments, and which can be used to support any particular point of... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2019 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 21 June

  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 21 June 2019 DEBATE

• .. and Your Name Will Be Mud.

  From The Guardian: Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2019 DEBATE

• The Disappearing Homes Conundrum

  Using @yppuk, I mocked this wild claim: Mr Ganatra added: “Dis-incentivising private landlords may end in a serious housing shortage, which will backfire,... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 DEBATE

• Wealth Tax Musings

  I've probably mentioned some of this before, but to summarise: 1. A traditional argument against Land Value Tax is that it is a "wealth tax". Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 DEBATE

• Doc Marten Boots - Real Life Confirms Blog Comment

  Barman, in the comments here: Many years ago my daughter had a thing for Dr. Marten boots, she had about five pairs in various colours (all paid for by herself... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 DEBATE

• Overlapping Random Cycles

  

  There are lots of people like Piers Corbyn who reckon that the weather/climate is influenced by lots of things that go in cycles (he reckons that the main... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 DEBATE

• Just Dig a Canal Across the UAE, Problem Solved.

  

  According to the Americans, the Iranians are carrying out sporadic random attacks on oil tankers passing through the Straits of Hormuz. The Iranians are decryin... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (461)

  Via Labour Land Campaign, an article in Prospect from last year, which, despite the sub-heading, only touches briefly on LVT. True to form, a drone at... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 DEBATE

• Value Added Tax is Quite Literally a Tax on "value Added". Why Do People Not...

  The Tory wannabes are trotting out their tax plans, and a couple have mentioned looking at VAT (Michael Gove, article by Sam Dumitriu, and Rory Stewart, via... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2019 DEBATE