Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Global Cooling Vs Global Warming

  As anybody interested in history knows, periods of global cooling, even by a degree on average, lead to food shortages, spread of disease and 'social unrest'. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2019 DEBATE

• Inevitably...

  From the BBC: Labour has said it is prepared to back another EU referendum to prevent a "damaging Tory Brexit". Jeremy Corbyn has told Labour MPs the party... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 DEBATE

• City AM Has Lucid Moment - Shock.

  City AM is normally a cheerleader for rent seekers everywhere, so today's editorial (second page of pdf) on Persimmon being "stripped of its right to participat... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 DEBATE

• "Green House Gas Effect Experiment - Climate Change and Modeling"

  

  There are several such videos on YouTube, I like this one best because they give the fullest explanation of their methods etc. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2019 DEBATE

• Yokohama ECOS Blue Earth ES31 175/65 R14 82S Tyres for Sale

  

  Yokohama ECOS Blue Earth ES31 175/65 R14 82S tyres. Full matching set, vgc, 6mm tread. Suit MX5 mk1/mk2. £50 ONO. Leave a comment or email me... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2019 DEBATE

• No, Gove! Just No!

  From the BBC: Environment Secretary Michael Gove has promised that the government will apply tariffs to food imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit, to provid... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2019 DEBATE

• The Relentless Logic of the Fraudster

  From Nautilus: What Dark Matter Needs Are New Kinds of Experiments After 30 years and no results, it’s time to support more entrepreneurial physicists. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2019 DEBATE

• "Young People Living in Vans, Tiny Homes and Containers"

  From the BBC, following the journalistic guideline "Don't mention land or access to land! It's only about the physical building! Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Your Children Get Hurt!

  From the BBC: Children's safety could be put at risk if the UK leaves the EU without proper plans for child protection, the UK's four children's commissioners... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2019 DEBATE

• Honda Closure

  This is something of a follow-up of my previous post about car making but I thought I'd specifically cover Honda. It's personally sad for me because I worked... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2019 DEBATE

• Anodyne Waffle And Meaningless Platitudes Of The Week

  The "statement" on the official website of the SevenEight Dwarves is a masterpiece in waffle, it just goes on and on an on until you lose the will to live: Our... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (452)

  I've not done one of these for a while, mainly because there aren't any but the Homeys haven't even bothered rehashing old ones. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2019 DEBATE

• Chiaroscuro: The Light and the Dark

  I may have misread the news yesterday. But, as I understand it, Tom 'Fat Boy Slim' Watson is deeply upset that Lucrezia Borgia has left the Labour Party. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2019 DEBATE

• Greenhouse Gas Levels Through the Roof, And..?

  

  What can't speak can't lie. Click on pictures to see source: Given that the levels of CO2 and CH4 have gone through the roof, can somebody please explain to me... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2019 DEBATE

• Fun With Numbers - Energy Efficient Vacuum Cleaners

  Over at Physiocrat's blog. He reckoned that the EU vacuum cleaner regulations would reduce total electricity usage in the EU by 1/100,000. He updated the post... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2019 DEBATE

• Fun With Numbers - Divisibility Tests

  I got a bit lost on YouTube, via Chinese Remainder Theorem and Modular Functions, I ended up with divisibility tests. Telling by eye whether a number divides... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2019 DEBATE

• We Don't Need *a* Withdrawal Agreement

  The whole notion of having a single, all-encompassing EU Withdrawal Agreement was a nonsense from the start, even assuming a lot of goodwill and willingness to... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2019 DEBATE

• "Enter the First, Fourth and Fifth Characters of Your Unique Word"

  Sometime when you login somewhere, you are asked to enter certain characters from your unique word, which is surprisingly difficult and often takes two or... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2019 DEBATE

• A Shining Example of What the UK Government *should* Have Been Doing for the Las...

  From Sky News: The government has signed a trade deal with Switzerland, heralded as the most significant such agreement in the run-up to Brexit. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (20)

  The Killer Argument is that if you replace means-tested and conditional welfare payments with an unconditional and non-means tested one, "people won't bother... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2019 DEBATE