Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• "Unregistered Schools Given Council Funding"

  The BBC at its PC best. You can guess pretty well what this is about just from the headline, but you have to slog two-thirds of the way through the article... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2019 DEBATE

• Yes, but Who Will Stand up for the Thieves and Adulterers?

  There has - quite rightly - been an uproar about Brunei's threat/promise to punish homosexual acts by stoning people to death. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2019 DEBATE

• More Brexit LOLZ

  From The Electoral Commission website: European Parliamentary elections (Great Britain) We have published our guidance for the European Parliamentary elections... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the Exam Timetable Gets Hurt!

  Going round the silliness clock with the TES: Pupils might have to sit their GCSEs and A-levels on later dates or at alternative sites in the “nightmare”... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2019 DEBATE

• Seems Like Good Value to Me.

  From the BBC: In their "summary for policymakers", the scientists stated that: "All pathways that limit global warming to 1.5C with limited or no overshoot... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2019 DEBATE

• My Updated Dream Crap-but-loveable Car List

  I keep a list on a post-it, which is getting increasingly grubby. I've crossed out some from my initial list and added a couple: 1. and 2. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2019 DEBATE

• There Was No Mention of This in the IPCC Report

  From the BBC: What's really significant, though, is that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was very similar [in the Pliocene] to what it is today... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2019 DEBATE

• It's Opposites Day!

  From a blatantly biased article at the BBC: Leo Varadkar restated his commitment to an open border in Ireland with free movement of people and frictionless... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2019 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From today's City AM (my emphasis): Re: Deadlocked MPs reject soft Brexit as Tory MP quits party in protest It is a sad comment on the state of our politics whe... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2019 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers

  From The Guardian: On 27 March, MPs voted against 'Motion B: no deal in the absence of a withdrawal agreement' by 400 to 160. Also from The Guardian: The... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2019 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  Headline in The Daily Mail: Concorde captain who flew the Queen and Princess Diana is found dead with dementia-suffering wife in 'murder-suicide' at their... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2019 DEBATE

• Short List

  Today's short list: People who have written (or co-written) and performed two completely different songs with the same title. I'm only aware of two examples:... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 DEBATE

• "James Corden Says 'irritating' Actors Are Shut out of Romantic Roles"

  From the BBC: James Corden has criticised the exclusion of "irritating" people in films and on TV, saying they "never really fall in love... never have sex". Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2019 DEBATE

• "Can Northampton's 'dying' High Street Be Saved?"

  Finally, a measured article on the topic from the BBC, mentioning all the actual reasons why some High Streets are dying. The number of boarded up shop fronts i... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2019 DEBATE

• What Fresh Hell is This?

  Email from our HR department: Annual Employee Details Form Right to Work Check I haven’t yet received your annual employee details form and your right to... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2019 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 29 March

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

  Posted on 28 March 2019 DEBATE

• More Brexit Bonkersness

  Here are our MP's net votes against the eight options (the smaller the number, the more popular something is, or less unpopular at least): Revoking Article 50 t... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2019 DEBATE

• Do We Benefit from Low Wages in Other Countries? Discuss!

  TBH had a discussion with X (name escapes me) recently, which raises some interesting topics which we thought might be of interest. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (453)

  From a recent Evening Standard, for "business rates" read "land value tax": Labour needs to do more to help get rid of business rates Rohan Silvas' comment... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2019 DEBATE

• Make the Punishment Fit The, Er...

  From The Daily Mirror: Helen May, 39, who initially got benefits due to a heart problem she had since the age of 10, failed to tell authorities that her health... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2019 DEBATE