Markwadsworth

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• "That Would Be Grossly Unfair on Good Landlords, Who Are the Vast Majority in...

  From Hansard, debate on Tenant Fees Bill, 23 January 2019: Bob Blackman Conservative, Harrow East: The issue for us was that four weeks [maximum deposit] would... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2019 DEBATE

• A Key Element of Home-Owner-Ism is a Complete Lack of Self Awareness...

  Headline in Daily Mail/Money: How Britain's £239bn buy-to-let bubble burst: Our devastating report reveals landlords ruined by tax penalties - and their... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2019 DEBATE

• "UK Rents Fall for First Time in a Decade"

  Via HPC Survivors FB group, from The Guardian: Rents across Britain fell in 2018 for the first time in a decade, offering relief for tenants after years of... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2019 DEBATE

• Usual Labour Bullshit Vs Usual Tory Bullshit

  From The Guardian: Sadiq Khan will make a campaign for wide-ranging rent control the key plank of his 2020 re-election bid, asking the government to give the... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2019 DEBATE

• A Mini Solution to Nuclear Mess

  Fine article by Anthony Hilton in the Evening Standard: ... there is another option, though not one which environmentalists favour, and that is small modular... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2019 DEBATE

• Turns Out, It Wasn't an Exaggeration

  From the Wiki page on rent-seeking: The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the French Farmers Get Hurt!

  From the BBC: The head of France's main farmers' union has warned that a no-deal Brexit could have a severe impact on French agricultural exports. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2019 DEBATE

• "Micro-homes Could Solve London's Housing Crisis"

  Via PricedOut FB group, from the BBC: Living in micro-homes could "expand choice" for young professionals and help tackle London's housing crisis, a report has... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2019 DEBATE

• Does Patent Protection Encourage Or Discourage Innovation?

  From the BBC: Deep in a water treatment plant in Ramstein, near Kaiserslautern in south-west Germany, one woman believes she's found the answer [to fatbergs]. D... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2019 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or Your Car Insurance Gets Hurt!

  From the BBC: Car insurance costs are climbing for the first time since 2017, partly because of Brexit uncertainty, according to the AA. Over the last three... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2019 DEBATE

• Can Anybody Explain the Outcome of These Car Crashes?

  

  The Prince Philip thing baffles me, how do you knock over a giant Land Rover by T-boning it with a Ford Ka? Even more baffling is this one, from Yahoo: Monks... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2019 DEBATE

• Here We Go Again...

  From The Telegraph: A second referendum will take well over a year to organise, according to official guidance drawn up by civil servants in the Cabinet Office. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2019 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (451)

  Sobers, arch-Home-Owner-Ist and a reliable source of flaky KLNs on KLN#448 "... giving the State the power to determine who occupies a piece of land (which is... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2019 DEBATE

• Headlights Moan and Squeaky Windscreen Wipers.

  I don't know if it's just me, or because I usually drive cars that are as low as other cars; headlight beams, but headlights seem to be a lot brighter nowadays. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2019 DEBATE

• The Thin End of the Wedge

  From the BBC: Some 140,000 homeowners are trapped on high interest-rate home loans with unregulated or inactive firms, and are unable to switch to a cheaper... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2019 DEBATE

• All Countries Are Developing Countries - Part 2 - the Libertarian View

  (In haste as I have to do some work...) N.B. All states start from homesteading and then warlording etc. It’s how they get past the war-lording that... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2019 DEBATE

• All Countries Are Developing Countries - the Core Functions of the State

  I have been blogging - and thinking about stuff - for so long, that I can contrast my current thinking with my own post of nearly eleven years ago. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2019 DEBATE

• Female Logic

  From The Daily Mail: The millionaire co-founder of MoneySupermarket.com who discovered the three boys he raised were not his own has offered a £5,000 rewar... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2019 DEBATE

• My First eBay Auction!

  I needed a replacement wheel for the MX5 (some arsehole drove into it), a single new OEM replacement is £180 plus postage, they can whistle for that. I... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2019 DEBATE

• "LED Lights Making Dent in UK Energy Demand"

  From the BBC: The new analysis of government figures comes from the environmental analysis website Carbon Brief. Its author says EU product standards on light... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2019 DEBATE