Markwadsworth

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• Car Hits House - with a Bad Ending

  From The Bristol Post: A woman has died and residents have been evacuated after a car crashed into a house in Clevedon. The woman who was killed was in the hous... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2018 DEBATE

• Stats Confirm, Don't Build Houses If You Want to Increase Incomes.

  

  In response to Ian Mulheirn's thorough de-bunking of the supply shortage narrative of the housing crisis, Capex has let John Myers, aka London YIMBY, have yet... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2018 DEBATE

• Most Employees Pay Far More National Insurance Than Income Tax

  The 'earnings threshold' for NIC is lower than the personal allowance for income tax; and for basic rate taxpayers, total NIC is 25. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2018 DEBATE

• Economic Myths - Imposing a Minimum Wage Will Always Lead to Falls in...

  

  Opponents (broadly, "right wingers") say that wage levels are set in a competitive market, so if the minimum wage is higher than this, this will cost jobs and... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2018 DEBATE

• In Reply to Bayard's Question About Why People Spend So Much on Housing.

  From here Me: If your point was that land prices are the inverse of interest rates and/or proportional to credit availability, you are clearly correct. Bayard:... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2018 DEBATE

• Method Or Madness?

  I, like most people, assume that Donald Trump is just an overgrown spoilt brat child who has no concept of his actions having negative consequences, it's all... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 DEBATE

• Home Ownership Doesn't Make You Happy

  I recently read that Finland had been ranked the happiest country in the world by the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which got me looking into... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 DEBATE

• Poacher Turned Gamekeeper

  Ed Conway in 2009, rooting for LVT: Second, the Government must reshape the tax system so that it does not favour home ownership. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments for LVT, Not (2)

  Following on from my previous post, the same factors that mean that a 100% LVT replacement tax won't cause a wiping out of the landlord class, mean that LVT... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  High-flying lawyer who rents out £320,000 house* where two men died in suspected carbon monoxide leak is being investigated by police * Or not as the case... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 DEBATE

• "Restaurant Diner Cheesed off by Asda Baked Camembert"

  From The Times: A diner who ordered a £13 baked camembert at a restaurant was served one costing £1.15 from Asda which was still in its round... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2018 DEBATE

• In the Interest of Balance...

  Bayard posted something here, and Simon McKenna responded on Facebook: "My reply to Mark Wadsworth... I must say the fact that Mark fails to understand my... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2018 DEBATE

• Let's Talk About anti-Semitism in the Labour Party Without Addressing...

  There's a glorious amount of hand wringing at The Guardian and the like, but it's all meaningless waffle. To my mind, anti-Semitic (which is an inaccurate way o... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2018 DEBATE

• YPP (London) Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 6 April

  1. It looks like it will be warm enough again tomorrow for a Friday meet-up, after six long months shivering in the dark. 2. We'll be at The Brewmaster nr... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2018 DEBATE

• "Over-50s Hold 75 Per Cent of UK Housing Wealth"

  From City AM: Homeowners over 50 hold three-quarters of the country’s housing wealth, according to new research from global property adviser Savills. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2018 DEBATE

• Health Tourism and Acceptable Losses

  From fullfact.org: Who is a “health tourist”? Qualifying for free NHS care isn’t based on nationality or where someone was born. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2018 DEBATE

• "The Strange Phenomenon of Twin Films" - an Excellent List of Short Lists

  Steve McIntosh at the BBC has done an excellent list of my favourite kind of list, one with two things on it. Films about a comet/asteroid hurtling towards Eart... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments FOR LVT, Not

  On a post on the Facebook LVT group, one Simon McKenna made the following comment: "..the private collection of rent is not only economically imprudent because... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Week

  It was in this week's City AM, but those have already gone to recycling so I can't give credit to the original author. The gist of it was that there's no point... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (437)

  Patrick Hutton left this comment half way down a thread on Peter Thiel balking at the high rents in Silicon Valley: An important apologerap* is the response to... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2018 DEBATE