Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• I Was Surprised to See This in The Telegraph

  I just stumbled across this, from three years ago: Business rates are the closest thing we have in the UK to a land value tax (LVT). They're favoured by... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2019 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 24 May

  

  Looks like nice-ish weather tomorrow, so we'll be at The Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards for an hour or two. Leicester Sq Tube, exit one and left into the alleyway... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2019 DEBATE

• Surely a Ten-year Old Can See That This is Complete and Utter Nonsense?

  From one of my favourite Warmenist Porn sites: Climate Myth... Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas “Water vapour is the most important greenhouse... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2019 DEBATE

• Classic Bit of BBC Spitefulness

  In their article headed European elections 2019: Where the parties stand on Brexit, the BBC lists parties alphabetically, so first is Change UK, then... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2019 DEBATE

• I Am Now a Climate Science Believer!

  I haven't been posting much over the last few days because I was busy reading lots of articles about Climate Science and watching YouTube videos, most were... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2019 DEBATE

• Cargo Cult Improvement

  From The Guardian Just over a decade ago, Mulhouse, a town of 110,000 people near the German and Swiss borders, was a symbol of the death of the European high... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2019 DEBATE

• Little Ice Age Never Happened - Shock.

  

  From here: Global mean warming [has] reached 1°C above preindustrial for the first time. It is a signal from the climate system that time is running out... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2019 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers - Splitting the Remain Vote at the MEP Elections

  The MEP elections in Great Britain, to be next held on 23 May 2019, use the d'Hondt system for allocating seats in each of eleven constituencies/regions. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2019 DEBATE

• City AM Let's Another One Slip into Its Pages...

  From City AM Debate: Since it’s likely that an online sales tax would be passed onto shoppers, what we really need is a proper shake-up of how we tax... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2019 DEBATE

• DIY Door Knob Gripe

  I learned something new at the weekend, there's a good summary here: Sprung v Unsprung Door Handles [for 'handles' read 'knobs'] Springs are required to get doo... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2019 DEBATE

• Before/after of the Day

  

  Although I prefer to keep things original*, my final repair/improvement job on the MX-5 Mk2 (which will now run problem-free for the next ten or twenty years,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2019 DEBATE

• How Office Twats 'stay Hydrated'

  Vaguely prompted by this fine Daily Mash article, where I work, a lot of people carry round those poncey re-fillable water bottles. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2019 DEBATE

• Death of the High Street

  Working on a daughter's mountain bike over last weekend. It was daughter A's bike that she had given to daughter B. Needed general clean and oil and the brakes... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2019 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: The BBC confirmed [Danny Baker's] tweet, and said in a statement: 'This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2019 DEBATE

• What is Happening to Our Once Great Nation?

  From Sky News: People in the UK are drinking less alcohol, despite an increase in worldwide consumption. Using World Health Organisation data researchers found... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2019 DEBATE

• I Was Pleasantly Surprised to See This in City AM...

  ... especially as most of the article is the usual Home-Owner-Ist drivel. From City AM, the concluding paragraph is: If politicians want to smooth out this... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2019 DEBATE

• More Dark Matter Fun...

  From Medium.com: Dark matter has become an object for scientists that is as fascinating as it is mysterious, and whilst many cosmologists and astrophysicists... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (457)

  The Taxpayers' Alliance tweeted this Bastiat quote: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2019 DEBATE

• Excellent Analogy About "money"

  By Tim Youmans on Twitter: Many years in the future... Earth is now uninhabitable because [reasons]... out of necessity, the people left figured out how to... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (456)

  Let's go round the clock of stupidity yet again, this time from y-combinator: Land value tax is all about driving each parcel towards its highest-value, most... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2019 DEBATE