Markwadsworth

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• "Man Dies in Boiler Room 'explosion' in Felixstowe"

  From the BBC: A person has died in what has been described as an "explosion" on board a ship at the Port of Felixstowe. One person was killed and another taken... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2017 DEBATE

• "Eye Watering", "black Hole", "shocking", "whopping".

  From today's Taxpayers' Alliance mass email: News broke yesterday that Surrey County Council is to hold a referendum asking residents for permission to hike... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2017 DEBATE

• Remind Me, When Were Those Days?

  From The Evening Standard: Mr Verhofstadt, president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, said: "Britain has chosen a hard Brexit. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (5)

  Emailed in by Lola, more innumerate and illogical drivel from mises.org: having outlined some of the obvious advantages Where UBI Proponents Go Wrong A universa... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2017 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Fungible Funding

  Oxfam is getting all hot under the collar about the fact that the world's eight richest men own as much wealth as the poorest half of the population of the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2017 DEBATE

• "Number of First-time Buyers Reaches 10-year High"

  … boasted The Halifax last Friday: First-time buyers numbers have totalled over 300,000 for the third successive year, growing from 312,900 in 2015 to an... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2017 DEBATE

• The Wrong House

  Continuing my very occasional series, from The Mirror: A brave mother-of-four fought off two armed and masked men who burst into her home looking for drugs…... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2017 DEBATE

• Paris Jackson Doesn't Do Irony

  

  Apparently, Paris Jacksons is upset about a TV film in which Michael Jackson was to be played by a white actor. I don't get it. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2017 DEBATE

• If This is a Good Idea, Then Employers Will Do It Anyway.

  From a recent Evening Standard: Employers were today urged to offer loans to staff to cover their rental deposit as part of a campaign to help workers with... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (4)

  From Business Insider UK: The universal basic income — a universal payment to every adult, designed to support a basic living standard regardless of whether... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2017 DEBATE

• ... but Some Are More Equal Than Others.

  Putting their usual left/right spin on the same press release. The BBC: New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2017 DEBATE

• Stupid Headlines / Numbers

  Here So the NHS left 485 patients on trollies for more than 12 hours last week. Yes, alright, that's not good for those poor souls. But let's get this in... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (3)

  Lola reminded me about this article in The Telegraph: But the big [experiment] is Finland, an entire country, which is going to do a pilot, selecting 2,000... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2017 DEBATE

• As We Were Saying...

  From City AM (bottom of page 7 of this pdf version): RENTS in the UK are moving towards an “affordability ceiling” as rental growth more than halved over 2016... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 DEBATE

• Guess What the Chart Is...

  

  We could debate exactly when the onset of the 'Global Financial Crisis' actually was, but let's just all agree it started in 2007, making this year the 10th... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Competing Theories of Gravity & Groupthink

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Which theory better explains the high rotational speed of stars in the outer arms of a galaxy? Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2017 DEBATE

• Muddled Assumptions Which Cancel Each Other Out.

  Somebody alerted me to this drivel at the Adam Smith Institute (but I can't find the email any more, thanks anyway): Thankfully the situation is much better now... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2017 DEBATE

• "Lawyer Launches Petition Against HS2 After Saying She Will Have No Choice but t...

  Emailed in by Chrome Man from the Manchester Evening News: A lawyer who feels she has no choice but to sell her home over plans to build a railway beneath it ha... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2017 DEBATE

• "Dentists Call to End Workplace Cake Culture"

  From the BBC: Dentists have criticised "workplace cake culture", saying the sharing of sweet treats in the office is contributing to health problems. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2017 DEBATE

• That Top Gear Expedition Got Nowhere Near the North Pole.

  They showed that episode again over the holidays, all great TV and so on, but if you pay attention at the end, the co-ordinates on the satnav shows latitude 78... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2017 DEBATE