Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• It's "low-HANGING Fruit", You Bozo!

  From the BBC: "The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) defended the practice of paying informants - or covert human intelligence sources as they are... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Trump's Travel Ban & Means-testing

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Which general approach would you prefer for the UK..? Trump-style travel ban for people from Islamis... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 DEBATE

• 'We Are Xxxx, Everybody Hates Us'

  I do not follow German football myself, but I noticed this piece about Rb Leipzig and it got me thinking. If you read the introduction it seems to be mostly... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (7)

  The morons seemed to have reached peak idiocy, they are going round in ever decreasing circles without bothering to look at facts, maths or logic, let alone... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2017 DEBATE

• The Disadvantage of Trade Deficits

  I don't subscribe to the mercantilist "imports bad, exports good" world view, but this comment by Dinero a couple of days ago is not quite correct: It's worth... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2017 DEBATE

• Land Bankers' Myths Gradually Starting to Unravel.

  From The Daily Telegraph: Developers will be ordered to use planning permission or lose it under government plans to speed up the building of hundreds of... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2017 DEBATE

• "The La La Land That Time Forgot"

  From imdb and imdb: In Hollywood in 1916, during the World War, a British passenger ship is torpedoed by the German U-boat commanded by Captain Von Schoenvorts... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2017 DEBATE

• Outbreaks of Common Sense in Right Leaning Think Tanks!

  Exhibit One: Philip Booth (of the Institute for Economic Affairs) in today's City AM: Cafod argues that we should remove our trade barriers without expecting... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2017 DEBATE

• Crikey! Alaistair Heath Talks Sense Shock

  Here I quote:- The solution is a fourth approach, a toughened-up version of the British way. We should be proud to be the country of Sir Mo Farah, Sajid Javid... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: USA Military Spending & "gifts for Islamists"

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Without Googling first, how much is the USA's annual military spending? Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2017 DEBATE

• Housing Crisis Paradox

  We are told that high housing costs are due to a lack of supply. Therefore we need to build more homes to make them affordable. But building and maintaining... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2017 DEBATE

• "Obama Administration Bails Out Private Equity Landlords at the Expense of the...

  Emailed in by TBH from Naked Capitalism. A fairly long article, concluding with this: Let us stress that there is absolutely no policy justification for this. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (408)

  At the nuttier end of the Faux Lib spectrum, from politicsform.org. He or she refers to land or land and buildings as "property", but it's a very common... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 DEBATE

• It's Not a Game of Monopoly... Well, It is Actually.

  Via MBK from The Times: Tesco, the country’s biggest supermarket group, has announced a surprise £3.7 billion merger with the food wholesaler Booker. Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 DEBATE

• Sounds Like a Job for LVT-man

  Vie MBK from The Telegraph: The vast majority of houses were sold under freehold, traditionally, while flats were leasehold. The latter puts owners at a... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (6)

  Twitter exchange: @jamesbulman1: UBI still seems barmy to me. Idea from @Citizensincome in @thetimes today seems to give a paltry £3K per person at nationa... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2017 DEBATE

• Stockbroker LOLZ

  From City AM: Sports Direct has split from three of its brokers, announcing today that Liberum Capital would be its sole broker from hereon. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2017 DEBATE

• Testing Times: Whose Independent Missle Test Anyway?

  Testing times again for a Defense Secretary over the latest Trident Program. It was never, ever simple though. Back in the 1960’s everybody understood that the... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Group Think & USA Military Spending

  The results to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Who is most in thrall to group think? Tabloid readers 33 votes Academics 67 votes Journalists... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2017 DEBATE

• So British

  From the FT: The value of all the homes in the UK has reached a record £6.8tn, nearly one-and-a-half times the value of all the companies on the London... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2017 DEBATE