Markwadsworth

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• Nobody Move Or the Mozzarrella Gets It!

  City AM passes on some fear-mongering: Food prices will soar on key supermarket items such as mozzarella, tomatoes and apples if the UK does not secure a... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2017 DEBATE

• The Key to Longevity Appears to Be Sticking to a Daily Routine.

  From The Guardian: Morano’s extraordinarily long life began on 29 November 1899... She attributed her longevity to leaving her husband in 1938 shortly after... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2017 DEBATE

• "Is Your Child's School About to Start Charging You as Government Funding Dries...

  From The Manchester Evening News (the first article that came up on Google): The government is proposing to change its funding formula to individual schools. Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 DEBATE

• General Election 2017 - Call for Candidates

  If anybody is willing to stand as a YPP candidate in their constituency and has a few hours to spare to get all the signatures and form filling done, please... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 DEBATE

• "People Earning More Than I Do Are Rich"

  From The Daily Mail: People earning £70,000 a year (1) are 'rich' and should pay more tax, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said today. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2017 DEBATE

• Peter Lilley, Still on Top Form

  Emailed in by MBK, from ConHome: £350 million per week is the gross contribution that Britain pays the EU before netting off the Thatcher rebate and the... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2017 DEBATE

• "Luckily His Fall Was Partially Intervened by a Utility Pole..."

  From The Daily Mail: A seven-year-old boy from China has survived after intimating a cartoon character and leaping out from a 10th-storey window with an... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Russia/Syria & North Korea

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Should the G7 impose further sanctions on Russia because of Assad's nerve gas attack in Syria? Yes... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 DEBATE

• "How Dave's Chums Are Lining Their Porky Pockets"

  The Daily Mail does what appears to be a bit of original research for once: Set in 20 acres of Florida’s ocean-front splendour and with the best suites costing... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 DEBATE

• Another Monumentally Stupid Idea

  Here we go again. Why will these people never learn that in every case all these scrappage subsidy schemes simply pass straight through the hands of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2017 DEBATE

• "The Cows Are Channelling Their Trump Tendencies"

  ... says Graeme* in the comments, with a link to The Telegraph: Travelers on the London-to-Uckfield train line were probably not that surprised to hear their... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2017 DEBATE

• "Tens of Thousands of Public Sector Cotractors to See Net Pay Slashed by a Fifth"

  From a press release from Randstad (employment/recrtuitment agency) which landed in my inbox two weeks ago: * Final legislation on off-payroll working or... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2017 DEBATE

• "House Prices Go Up... Number of Births Goes Down"

  The Daily Mail publishes a summary of some research by the EBRD: Young couples are putting off starting a family as a result of rising house prices, research... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Government Guidelines for Physical Activity & Imposing...

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Do you achieve the government's guidelines for physical activity every week? Multiple answers... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 DEBATE

• "Social Care System 'beginning to Collapse' as 900 Carers Quit Every Day"

  From the BBC. I don't wish to make light of the whole topic, but I am always suspicious of "big scary numbers" in headlines, or headlines containing the words... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 DEBATE

• No? Surely Not?

  Here The Bank of England implicated in the 'fixing' of LIBOR. Quelle surprise. As in my view (and the view of many others) the Bank of England's first of two... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 DEBATE

• Smurfs: The Lost City of Z

  From IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2398241/plotsummaryand IMDBhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/plotsummary This fully animated, all-new take on the... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (410)

  Another rebuttal of the tried and tested "But I contribute to the location value of my home, because I am a good neighbour, shop in the local shops, am a... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2017 DEBATE

• Crusty Old Misery-guts of the Day (Ros Altmann Edition)...

  Doctor Rosalind Miriam Altmann (or Baroness Ros Altmann to her friends) has an inactive FCA registration. So I'm not sure why she is giving financial advice in... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (9)

  Emailed in by Shiney, John Kay trots out the usual half-hearted waffle. On the facts, he is not too far off the mark most of the time, but a lot of it is... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 DEBATE