Markwadsworth

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• Idiotic Attention Seeking of the Week

  From The Evening Standard: With London’s population set to explode over the next decade, the Evening Standard and agri-science firm Syngenta are investigating... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2017 DEBATE

• It's That Myth Again

  Nick Hubble, who generally has the right idea about a lot of things, contradicts himself here. "Prices are controlled by supply and demand. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2017 DEBATE

• Glorious Bit of Misreporting by The Daily Mail

  They've really come up trumps this time: Wetherspoons is set to slash prices on all of its food and drink for one day only in a bid to convince the Government t... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2017 DEBATE

• Duncan Does Car-Owner-Ism

  By @duncanstott: We could plan cars in the same way we plan houses. Roads are congested, so let's have a planning system to control the number of new cars. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2017 DEBATE

• So is This a Gigantic Ponzi Scheme Or Am I Being Cynical and Simplistic?

  

  A quarter of a billion bucks isn't bad for a crowdfunding: Blockchain data storage network Filecoin has officially completed its initial coin offering (ICO),... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2017 DEBATE

• YPP (London) Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 8 September

  We'll be at The Brewmaster nr Leicester Square tube station from 5.20 or so onwards - if you think you'll turn up later than 6.30, please get in touch... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2017 DEBATE

• Fantastic* Article

  Spotted by Peter Smith (via FB) in What Mortgage: Even tenants think the buy-to-let crackdown will reduce housing supply Do they? All of them..? Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2017 DEBATE

• Redrow - Not Land Banking in the Slightest.

  From page 26 of their accounts to 30 June 2017: LAND The Group added 5,419 plots with planning permission to our owned and contracted land bank in the year. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2017 DEBATE

• "Nor Hell a Fury, Like a Woman Scorn'd"

  From The Daily Mail: A farmer who wants to give travellers her land for free because she hates her neighbours was confronted by irate locals today and told:... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2017 DEBATE

• Conscious UN-coupling

  Ryan Bourne in yesterday's City AM: According to the UN, Britain is ranked 156th out of 165 participating countries for “kids’ rights”. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2017 DEBATE

• US Sanctions

  The list of countries on which the USA imposes sanctions grows every year, as does the severity of the sanctions, despite they hardly seem to work. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2017 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Compulsory Pensions Saving

  From medium.com: "There is no economic rational for compulsory superannuation". He explains that forcing people to buy financial assets instead of funding old... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2017 DEBATE

• Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

  On the subject of our current online poll, I came across the article I referred to in an comment on the introductory post once again. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2017 DEBATE

• Life Copies Satire, Or "a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day"

  From the BBC, 20 February 2017: US President Donald Trump has sought to explain why he referred to a security incident in Sweden on Friday which did not actuall... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail Does Maths.

  

  From The Daily Mail: Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (422)

  That Facebook conversation started with this: Hello! I would love to get some feedback on an idea I've been thinking of. Today the Tories attacked... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2017 DEBATE

• More Brexit LOLZ

  From City AM: Retail industry experts have warned gaps could appear on supermarket shelves if the government does not secure the right customs agreements and... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (421)

  A slightly more coherent one from the comments at Sackerson's: Like most of our age, I can remember the introduction of poll tax. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (420)

  From a thread on the YPP Facebook group: Will Smithy: [Land Value Tax] was one bit of the manifesto i didn't hugely agree with, VAT i believe is a fairly... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Protest Marches; Students and Immigration Targets

  The results to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What's the correct response if people with whom you disagree organise a march? Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2017 DEBATE