Markwadsworth

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• "Fancy Having Your Piss Boiled?"

  ... asks Thomas Hall, who emailed in this: IEA announces winner of the Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize The prize, supported by entrepreneur Richard Koch,... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2018 DEBATE

• I Am Thouroughly Fed up with All This Rent Seeking Crap and Brexit Shennigans, S...

  

  Evening over Suffolk Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2018 DEBATE

• They [want To] Own Land! Give Them Money!

  Everything that's wrong with the Home-Owner-Ist/supply sider overlap in four short paragraphs: We should be honest: our housing crisis is one caused by the... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2018 DEBATE

• They [want To] Own Land! Give Them Money!

  They're at it again, says Lola who emailed in this from The Times: Cash handouts for Nimbys would remove obstacle to housebuilding - Mark Littlewood The... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2018 DEBATE

• .. When an Insurance Company Puff Piece Makes More Sense Than an Ivory Tower...

  From Moneywise (emailed in by Mike W): The actual cost of rebuilding a house only accounts for three-fifths (59%) of its market value, with the remainder based... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2018 DEBATE

• Nobody Move Or the French Tourism Industry Gets Hurt!

  From the Daily Mail: Britons could need visas to visit France if the UK does crash out of the EU without a deal. As Theresa May arrived in Brussels for a... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2018 DEBATE

• The Disappearing Homes Conundrum

  I commend a fine article, backed up with logic and hard numbers by Generation Rent. What happens to rents if landlords exit the market? Nothing. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2018 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form!

  From The Daily Mail: A retired company director who covertly filmed a young woman getting changed at his luxury home has been jailed for eight months. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 DEBATE

• Help To Buy - the Sequel

  Having established that the previous iteration of Help To Buy was an unqualified success, enabling 'home builders' to bump up their selling prices by ten... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2018 DEBATE

• #metoo

  I'm not particularly PC, but occasionally, the double standards really hit you. You are allowed to call a fat bloke at work a "fat bastard" or make derisory... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 12 October

  1. We'll be at the Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards for an hour or two. Leicester Sq Tube, exit 1, left and left again into the alleyway, look out for the yellow... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2018 DEBATE

• "Hammond Plans Tax Crackdown on Synthetic Self-employed"

  From the BBC: The Treasury is finalising plans to overhaul tax rules which allow self-employed people to avoid paying national insurance contributions. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2018 DEBATE

• A Bad Idea is Still a Bad Idea, Even If You Change the Justification.

  I thought it was just Faux Libs like Allister Heath who advocated this sort of corporation tax reform. He - encouragingly - starts off by making good arguments... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2018 DEBATE

• Got to Keep the Party Going...

  Here Now that the PPI scam (as in the bureaucratic scam) is coming to an end I was wondering what those bureaucrats would next invent to keep the 'mis-selling... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income. Not (19)

  From an idiot on the left (emailed in by BenJamin): The original philosophy behind basic income... came from neo-liberal economists who where absolutely fine... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2018 DEBATE

• Meaningless Tautology/platitude of the Week

  From The Metro: ‘Anyone can succeed, given the opportunity,’ says May Well duh, doesn't answer the question whether everybody is given the same opportunity (the... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2018 DEBATE

• Two Apparently Unrelated Headlines.

  From the BBC: Car sales plunge as Nissan warns on Brexit That's two quite distinct issues which have distinct causes. One did not cause the other, despite what... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2018 DEBATE

• Bureaucrat Worried About His Job

  Here By observation and logic regulationism was at the heart of the events leading up to the 2008 credit crisis. It was the predictable, abject and unremitting... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (446)

  Several years later, I have realised that rebutting arguments against LVT is easiest if you work backwards from them to derive your opening argument *for* LVT,... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 DEBATE

• "Why the Price of Buying a Second Hand Car is Dramatically Rising"

  A strange article on aspokesmansaid.com: Since the start of the decade, the price of the average second hand car has risen by more than 40% due to an excess of... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2018 DEBATE