Markwadsworth

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• Brexit is the Property Sector’s Chance to Spur Real Investmentask for Some Tax...

  The 'chief executive of First Property Group' in yesterday's City AM presents the usual Homey shopping list: If I were chancellor, I would aim to make Britain... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 DEBATE

• Another One of the Those "Key to a Long Life Is..." Stories

  From The Daily Mail: * Matilda Curcia credits reaching her 100th birthday to her habit of having a beer and three potato chips every night * She and friend... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 DEBATE

• California's Love of Cars Is Fueling Its Housing Crisis - Allegedly.

  Emailed in by Mombers from Bloomberg: In Los Angeles, it’s perfectly legal to build a new apartment without a refrigerator, a balcony, or air conditioning. But... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2018 DEBATE

• Indian Bicycle Marketing

  Those who stand above the fray know that in many respects, Labour and the Tories nick policies off each other and sometimes it's difficult to remember who... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2018 DEBATE

• Rural Basic Income ‘maximizes Impact’ for Society

  Article by a YPP member on the BIEN website. ... From this we can see that, not only is a rural basic income an affordable way to conveniently pay benefits to... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2018 DEBATE

• David Willetts Stumbling Vaguely in the Right Direction

  From The Independent: Baby boomers must pay to fund the spiralling costs of health and social care or risk inflicting crippling tax hikes on their children and... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2018 DEBATE

• Well That Didn't Last Long.

  When Trump said that the USA would introduce tariffs on steel and aluminium*, applying the usual protectionist-mercantilist-socialist-populist logic, right... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 DEBATE

• In a Universe Far, Far Away

  The problems for MP, Jabber the Watson continue to mount as he desperately hangs onto his Labour, Deputy Leader role. Photos have now emerged that show that... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 DEBATE

• Maplin's Landlords - Cutting off Their Noses to Spite Their Faces.

  From The Evening Standard: Landlords to collapsed retailers Toys R Us and Maplin could be left with empty stores totalling more than two Shard skyscrapers and... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2018 DEBATE

• Evening Standard Channels Its Inner Daily Mail

  From The Evening Standard: A marketing executive left a football fan “paralysed in fear” when he subjected her to an hour-long torrent of abuse on the train bac... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2018 DEBATE

• Today's Guest Post Was Emailed in by a Home-Owner-Ist.

  Displaying the complete lack of self-awareness that is typical of Home-Owner-Ists, Mick McK emailed me as follows: Well Mark, remember how you reveled in the ta... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 DEBATE

• Faux Lib Shill Gloriously Missing the Point.

  From City AM: DEBATE: Should tech firms be taxed on revenues, rather than profit? Sir Vince Cable: These large, mainly technology focused firms have been... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2018 DEBATE

• OK, Norway/EFTA Option It is Then.

  Faced with an unexpected narrow majority for Leave in the Referendum, The Powers That Be adopted a simple strategy, make such an unholy mess of it that all but... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (436)

  What is particularly irritating about all these KLNs is that they are not based on facts or reason, even though the Homeys pretend they are. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Immigration and Economic Growth

  City AM is a cheer leader for landlords and banks (it's the newspaper equivalent of the Taxpayers' Alliance). It has consistently been in favour of liberal... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 DEBATE

• Satire Copies Satire

  VIZ, September 2014, spoof advert for an 'off-road' vehicle with the slogan "Primary school halfway up a fucking mountain? No problem. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2018 DEBATE

• I Find This Paragraph Strangely Hypnotic

  From The Sun: The other fatalities, five men and two women, were Panneerselvam Annamalai, Rishi Ranjeev Kumar, Vivek Baskaran, Lavanyalakshmi Seetharaman,... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2018 DEBATE

• That Was the Cow of the Week That Was.

  From The Daily Mail: A runaway cow that avoided captivity for weeks died Thursday after it was caught and put on a truck to be taken to a farm, a local... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 DEBATE

• "Queen of the South Keeper Crisis After Goalie Hurt by Cow"

  Spotted by Paul F at the BBC: A Scottish Championship club is facing a selection headache after its reserve goalkeeper* was hit by a runaway cow. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 DEBATE

• "Migration Figures: Highest Number of EU Nationals Leaving UK in a Decade"

  ... screams the BBC: The number of EU citizens leaving the UK is at its highest level for a decade, figures from the Office for National Statistics show. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 DEBATE