Markwadsworth

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• "Dorchester Car Park Spaces to Cost £40,500 Each"

  From the BBC: A council which spent nearly £1m buying and relocating a church wants to use the site for 23 new car parking spaces... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2018 DEBATE

• Who Buys New Cars?

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Times: Here’s a surprising thing. The average age of a new car buyer in the UK is 54. The majority of new cars are bought by people... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2018 DEBATE

• "Statistics Misuse 'biggest Health Problem in Northern Ireland'"

  From the BBC: Figures obtained by BBC News NI show the number of alcohol-related deaths in Northern Ireland is the highest on record. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 DEBATE

• Ruth Davidson: Maths Genius

  H/t Lola, from The Herald: Business leaders have warned the tax burden on high street shops is disproportionately high. Ms Davidson said: “The retail sector... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 DEBATE

• "Builder Charged Over £4m New Homes Digger Destruction"

  From the BBC: A builder has been accused of causing £4m of damage by ripping apart five new homes with a digger... Daniel Neagu, 30, from Athelstone Road i... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 DEBATE

• President Erdogan Does Glorious Mixed Metaphors.

  He's the gift that keeps on giving. From the BBC: Mr Erdogan told a news conference in the Turkish capital, Ankara: "You [the USA] act on one side as a strategi... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 DEBATE

• President Erdogan Does a Glorious Diagonal Comparison.

  From City AM: US President Donald Trump has taken a hard line against Turkey over the fate of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been detained in Turkey fo... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 DEBATE

• Farmer 'killed in Field by Cattle' in Groombridge

  From the BBC: A farmer whose body was found in a field may have been trampled to death by his cattle, Sussex Police said. The 64-year-old's body was found in a... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 DEBATE

• Amazon's Tax Bill (here We Go Again)

  From The Independent: Philip Hammond has said he will consider tax changes hitting online businesses to ensure there is a more level playing field for high... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Supply and Demand - Planning Permission Vs Premiership Football...

  The usual suspects keep insisting that if we abandoned all planning restrictions, then the value of land would fall. "It's simple supply and demand, innit?",... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (18)

  The Centre for Social Justice have gone full retard: This paper argues that UBI is a false hope. While offering low income individuals better financial support... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2018 DEBATE

• "Beyonce's Family Tree Reveals Her Great-great-great Grandfather Was a Wealthy...

  It doesn't take much imagination to re-write the Daily Mail's rehashed spin. The whole thing is about how her black female ancestors were slaves bought and... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2018 DEBATE

• Another Cliff Tragedy

  From the BBC: A nine-year-old girl died from serious head injuries when rocks fell from a cliff at a beach in North Yorkshire... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 DEBATE

• Bubblicious!

  Emailed in by Lola, from The Telegraph, which devotes a lot of column inches to pushing 'equity release' schemes: Interest-only mortgage holders with no way of... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 DEBATE

• Trump's Point of No Return

  Caveat One: Trump might not the bumbling egoistical educationally sub-normal maniac we are told to think he is, he might be an all-seeing, all-knowing genius... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2018 DEBATE

• Kiki and Bouba; Vic and Bob

  

  It would appear that I am not completely abnormal. When I watched Vic and Bob in the 1990s, I automatically - but wrongly - assumed that the small sharp one... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2018 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: A great grandmother was bitten three times and had her finger broken in a terrifying attack by a fox that crept into her home as she read... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2018 DEBATE

• Cars, Cows... and Now Cliffs.

  From the BBC: A teenager was hurt when part of a cliff crumbled on top of her at a beach. The girl had been standing at the base of the cliff on Happisburgh... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2018 DEBATE

• And... It Comes Back to Bite Them.

  From the FT: First-time buyers who used the government’s Help to Buy scheme to get on the property ladder are finding they need help to remortgage, as many big... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2018 DEBATE

• YPP London Meet-up, Friday 3 August

  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 03 August 2018 DEBATE