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• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (424)

  Ben Southwood seeing the wood, not the trees over at the ASI: Land value tax advocates claim that a land value tax makes housing more affordable. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2017 DEBATE

• Good Work by Morgan Stanley

  From The Guardian: … the Morgan Stanley report, headlined “The help to buy premium – and its unintended consequences”, drily unpicks the data, revealing how... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: The North-South Divide; Fixed Odds Terminals

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: The UK's North-South divide runs from... Chester to London - 8% Bristol to Norwich - 76% Other,... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: The European Investment Bank

  Former UKIP leader Diane James, in City AM: ... at the same time as demanding that Britain must settle its divorce bill before trade can even be discussed, the... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 DEBATE

• Two and a Half Cheers for the Adam Smith Institute

  I'm surprised that Ben Southwood's article made it unredacted into today's City AM: Some taxes distort the economy far more than others for every pound they... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2017 DEBATE

• How to Make Attractive Cities.

  

  Very good YouTube video that asks the question, what does it take to build a beautiful city? The short answer is balance. The right balance between development... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2017 DEBATE

• Joined up Government

  From the BBC: Five offshore PFI companies paid little or no corporation tax during a five-year period despite making profits of nearly £2bn, the BBC has... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2017 DEBATE

• Tesco Accounting Fun: A New Broom Sweeps Clean? We've Seen It All Before.

  I've seen this pattern a hundred times before. The recent Tesco saga is a good illustration of the overall pattern: 1. Somebody (Terry Leahy in this example)... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2017 DEBATE

• Strange Words to Use in the Context

  Via @MisanthropeGirl, from North West Georgia News: A Floyd County farmer was killed Wednesday morning when a cow he was trying to move knocked him up against... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2017 DEBATE

• "Fifty of 'em"

  Says James Higham who spotted this in The Telegraph: A herd of 50 cows ran riot through suburban streets after escaping from a nearby farm. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 DEBATE

• Cognitive Dissonance in Action

  If you want to see cognitive dissonance in action, watch the Conservative party try to develop popular housing policies without contravening its loyalty to... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2017 DEBATE

• Welease Bwian!

  From The Daily Mail: Steel barricades are being erected on the coast today ahead of Storm Brian sweeping into Britain tonight, bringing 70mph winds and more tha... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2017 DEBATE

• The Explanation is Probably the Same as Last Time.

  From The Independent: Real wages across the UK declined for a sixth consecutive month in August. Growth in pay packets continued to lag behind a jump in... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2017 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  The Evening Standard published three scathing letters on the subject of the proposed reduction in Stamp Duty Land Tax "to help hard-pressed first time buyers ge... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2017 DEBATE

• Some Tories Ne-e-early Get It.

  Tim Montgomerie in The Sun: A YOUNG person from a town or city that has seen its main industry close has two choices – if you can call them choices. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: LVT Vs Wealth Tax; the North South Divide

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: 3% of £80 is more than 0.5% of £100. So what would raise more revenue - Land Value Tax or ... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2017 DEBATE

• If Only We Could Get Jeremy Corbyn The Adam Smith Institute to Understand About...

  From here, on the topic of Uber: Because they've all been making great gaping losses as they start up, meaning that they've needed capital to exist. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2017 DEBATE

• Yeah, but Whose Back Garden?

  From The Daily Mail: * Kieran Evans was given keys to 'iKozie' home in Barbourne, Worcester after it was air-lifted into a back garden *Thee 186sq ft (17. Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2017 DEBATE

• Idiot Argument of the Day.

  While many of his points are sound, Mark Littlewood jumps the shark with this: ...for example, try to imagine government food vouchers being redeemable at... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2017 DEBATE

• "A Cost Effective Solution to the Nation's Ongoing Housing Crisis". Not.

  More glorious nonsense from The Daily Mail: This stunning tiny 28-foot-long [mobile] house could be a solution to the housing crisis using a space-saving... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2017 DEBATE