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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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An Auction with a Price Cap is Not an Auction
This story is quite baffling, from Yahoo News/Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - BP, Shell and utility Iberdrola were among the winners of seabed rights to develop... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2022 DEBATE -
The Guardian's Alternate Reality
From The Guardian: The climate crisis is damaging the health of foetuses, babies and infants across the world, six new studies have found. Read more
Posted on 18 January 2022 DEBATE -
"Midget Gems Change Name After Academic's Campaign"
From the BBC: Marks Spencer has changed the name of its Midget Gems sweets to avoid misleading geology students after a campaign by a Liverpool academic. Read more
Posted on 14 January 2022 DEBATE -
Daily Mail on the Topic of "They Own Land, Give Them Money!"
Janet Street-Porter in The Daily Mail, is on good form: The largest landowner in Scotland is a Danish billionaire who is busy returning his holdings in the... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2022 DEBATE -
"Don't Look Up"
I had no intention of watching this film until I noticed that the Alarmists assume that this film is a parable about politicians and the media ignoring the... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2022 DEBATE -
Wolf News
From the BBC: Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a number of species disappeared from the Swiss Alps: the brown bear, the lynx and the wolf. Read more
Posted on 07 January 2022 DEBATE -
"Maureen Lipman Attacks Casting of Helen Mirren as Former Israeli PM Golda Meir"
From The Guardian: Maureen Lipman has criticised the casting of Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in a forthcoming film about the former Israeli prime minister,... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2022 DEBATE -
They Own Land! Give Them Money!
From the BBC: Farmers and landowners in England could be paid to turn large areas of land into nature reserves, or to restore floodplains, under new government... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2022 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (491)
Kester Pembroke emailed in the following, by a clueless wanker called Neil: Or alternatively we can recover planning gain from developers and impose peppercorn... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2022 DEBATE -
"Jeremy Clarkson Suffers 'smashed Testicles' After Cow Attack"
From Bang Showbiz: "I think this was the lowest point in my farming career to date. Being attacked by a cow while on my knees, in the mud, in a storm, with... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2022 DEBATE -
The Toughest Winter Ever.
The Observer, 31 October 2015: Record numbers of patients will be stuck on trolleys in corridors or the back of ambulances this winter as hospitals run out of... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2022 DEBATE -
Science News.
1. From the BBC: "Distant starlight gets stretched by the expansion of the Universe and shifts into the infrared region of the spectrum. Read more
Posted on 03 January 2022 DEBATE -
E5 v E10 Petrol
I was advised to put only E5/super in the 1996 Honda Del Sol, which costs £1.60/litre as against about £1.45/l for the homeopathic E10 stuff. No big... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2021 DEBATE -
Interesting Moral Dilemma
The Mini was parked where the red Audi is, but the handbrake wasn't fully on and it rolled gently down the hill, coming to rest against the rear bumper of the... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2021 DEBATE -
Windows 11 Upgrade is Shit and Other PC-related Trivia
1. My PC had been bombarding me with messages for several weeks, starting with "Upgrade to Windows 11 - it's really great!" which I ignored. Read more
Posted on 19 December 2021 DEBATE -
Oh the Irony.
From The Daily Mail: A Catholic Bishop has been forced to apologies to outraged parents after telling a group of children that Santa Claus does not exist. Read more
Posted on 13 December 2021 DEBATE -
"How Do We Know More CO2 is Causing Warming?" Part 2
Easy, just take it as a given. The British Antarctic Survey, who really ought to know better, have come up with this piece of nonsense: It is often said that th... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2021 DEBATE -
"How Do We Know More CO2 is Causing Warming?"
Easy, just measure A and claim you have measured B. From the Motherlode of Shite, they make the obligatory and wrong assumption that sea level temp's should be... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2021 DEBATE -
Something Else That LVT Would Sort Out:
Up in north Wales, local people are feeling aggrieved that mobile home and luxury caravan owners aren't paying enough council tax. Read more
Posted on 07 December 2021 DEBATE -
BBC at It Again
From the BBC: Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - came third with 6.6% of the vote, with the party's leader and candidate Richard Tice describing it as a... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2021 DEBATE