Markwadsworth

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• Money for Nothing...

  From the BBC: Rudi Klein, head of Specialist Engineering Contractor, an umbrella group representing suppliers to the construction industry, said Carillion... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 DEBATE

• Carillion: Winners and Losers

  City AM have listed the winners to save me the bother: ... Amid the chaos, however, lurk some cunning opportunists – most of whom can be found in Mayfair. In... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2018 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (431)

  Arch-Tory/NIMBY Nicholas Clarke on Twitter @drmagwai And what you fail to mention is that lvt only works properly when all land is already developed. Do we... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2018 DEBATE

• What is the Tax Base Under a LVT + Citizens Income?

  One objection against LVT I recently stumbled over was that as a single tax it violated the principle that everyone should contribute to state spending. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2018 DEBATE

• Oh Shit, Here We Go Again...

  From the BBC: Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he is close to backing a second EU referendum to end the "whinging and whining" of anti-Brexit campaigners. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2018 DEBATE

• The World Has Gone Completely Mad.

  A lot of diesel cars are clearly labelled 'diesel' somewhere near the filler cap so that you don't put in petrol by mistake, that's a good idea. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2018 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers

  From City AM: Last month Persimmon chairman Nicholas Wrigley and Jonathan Davie, the chair of its remuneration committee quit, after it was revealed Fairburn... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2018 DEBATE

• Environmental Kuznets Curve - Alive and Well.

  I first heard of this basic correlation decades ago, when I read that this was a likely explanation for e.g. rules on cars emissions being strictest in the... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2018 DEBATE

• BBC Stoops to Daily Mail Standards.

  From the BBC: Heavy rain run-off caused a mudflow in the community of Montecito, where some homes were knocked off their foundations, said Santa Barbara County... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2018 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Unaffordable Housing

  Hardly a day goes by without some journalist or politician mention that housing has become "unaffordable". However, a few moments' thought is all it needs to... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 DEBATE

• Economic Myths - NHS Spending and the Baumol Effect

  This theory (also known as Baumol's cost-disease) is given a lot of credence by e.g. The Economist, the LSE and Tim Worstall/Forbes. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 DEBATE

• Dear Daily Mail Readers ...

  

  ... "My wife and I are soon to have a 'clean break' divorce. Her lawyer is wanting me to sign over the house in its entirety that I have paid for all my... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 DEBATE

• ATCOR and Tax Incidence

  

  ATCOR is an acronym for "all taxes come out of rent". This means that apart from a poll tax, all other taxes are incident to some degree or another on land... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Donald Trump and Severn Tolls

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Did Trump collude with Russia in the 2016 Presidential election? No - 70% We'll never find out -... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2018 DEBATE

• More VAT-Brexit-related Fuckwittery

  From The Guardian: More than 130,000 UK firms will be forced to pay VAT upfront for the first time on all goods imported from the European Union after Brexit,... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 DEBATE

• The Recently Discovered Largest Prime Numbers Continues the Pattern Nicely...

  

  With thanks to James Higham whose post alerted me to this. I explained that there appears to be a surprisingly consistent pattern if you plot the number of... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2018 DEBATE

• Just Because...

  

  I was here today. This is the ex Rob Walker / Sterling Moss 250GT This is the ex David Piper 250 GTO now in the JCB Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2018 DEBATE

• Checklist for UKIP Leaders

  The current UKIP leader is taking this really seriously, see today's Metro: Checked flat cap? CHECK Green Barbour wax jacket? CHECK Carry large golfing... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2018 DEBATE

• Thank God?

  This is an interesting poll except it draws the correct conclusion ('members' does not equal 'voters') to misdirect. Tories are a 'breed apart'. Simple answer... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2018 DEBATE

• They Own Land! Give Them Money!

  From the BBC: UK farmers are to receive the same level of subsidies they get from the EU for five years after Brexit, the environment secretary is to say. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2018 DEBATE