Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Free School Powered Rent Seeking

  Building on MW's previous posts. Spotted at Guido Here It's a gift that just keeps on giving. Update It has occurred to me that there may be another lesson to... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2017 DEBATE

• "No Deal is Better Than a Bad Deal"

  This is tired old debate, see e.g. here. If you think rationally, there's no reason the UK needs a specific post-Brexit "deal" at all. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2017 DEBATE

• Rail-powered Rent-seeking

  From City AM: Housebuilders have added to the call for the government to firmly commit to Crossrail 2, saying it will be crucial in helping address the capital'... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2017 DEBATE

• Cannabis Powered Rent-seeking

  Emailed in by Mombers, from the NY Times: QUINCY, Mass. — At the edge of an industrial park in this suburb south of Boston, past a used-car auction lot and a... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Encryption & Government Guidelines for Physical Activity

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Should services like Whatsapp be made to pass on messages to the police if they obtain a warrant? Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 DEBATE

• Kong: Gilligan's Island

  From imdb and imdb: During what was supposed to be a three-hour tour to explore a mythical, uncharted tropical island in the Pacific, as dangerous as it is... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 DEBATE

• Most Bizarre Negotiating Tactic (if True...)

  Here "EU will ban UK from cutting tax or scrapping regulation as price of trade deal" Blatant extra-territoriality. Which no democratic government could sign... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 DEBATE

• Your Taxpayers' Money, Hard at Work.

  Spotted by Lola in The Telegraph: Inflation is officially back, and by the end of this year is expected to hit 2.3pc, above the Bank of England’s 2pc target. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 DEBATE

• Supply and Demand in the Housing Market

  From City AM: Developers have put the brakes on house building in central London as house prices in the capital dropped at the end of last year. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 DEBATE

• Brexit LOLZ and Not-so LOLZ

  Spotted by Shiney in Reaction: Brussels apparatchiks are in a state of shock: until Theresa May’s letter was opened, many of them had clung to the delusory... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: A mother and daughter have been spared jail after sending a death threat to a retired GP neighbour who pruned roses overhanging his garden... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 DEBATE

• "Qatar to Invest £5 Billion in UK Over Next Few Years"

  From The Daily Mail: Theresa May hopes to deepen ties with Qatar after the oil-rich Gulf state announced it will invest £5 billion in the UK over the next... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 DEBATE

• Nobody Move… Or the French Tourism Industry Gets It.

  From The Evening Standard: The EU chief leading the Brexit negotiations has painted a bleak picture of an “undoubtedly worse off” Britain if the two sides canno... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Post-Brexit Trade Deals & Encryption

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Post Brexit, the UK should… Impose trade barriers and tariffs - 1% Remain in the Single Market/EEA... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  The Daily Mail has pieced together the steps towards radicalisation: Over the next two decades the burly bodybuilder was convicted of a catalogue of offences... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  Spotted by MBK in The Daily Mail: English teacher Khalid Masood, 52, a 'lone wolf' attacker, who was living in the Birmingham area, had a series of convictions... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2017 DEBATE

• Anti-Business Rates Propaganda Doesn't Even Make Sense.

  From page 8 of Monday's City AM: SIX OUT of 10 firms facing increased business rate bills are already planning cutbacks, new figures reveal. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 DEBATE

• "Universal Income Would Make Inequality Worse, Say People Who Don't Do Numbers O...

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Times: A Labour proposal to replace benefits with a universal basic income would increase inequality and lead to billions of pounds... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 DEBATE

• I Work in Pensions and Still I Think That This is Wrong Headed.

  Here ....and it's not a 'raid' you numpties. You haven't got anything to 'raid' until you've made the contribution. The fact is that higher rate taxpayers mostl... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Immigrants, Expat's & Trade Deals.

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Citizens from other EU Member States currently living in the UK should… … all get permanent residenc... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2017 DEBATE