Markwadsworth

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• "Brexit Case Simple Enough for a Child, Supreme Court Told"

  From the BBC: A six-year-old child would understand why the government does not have the power to trigger Brexit, a lawyer has told the Supreme Court. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 DEBATE

• Feeble Standard Email Reply from My MP

  I sent my (Conservative) MP an email re Generation Rent's campaign against no fault evictions and received this feeble reply: Thank you for your email of 17th... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 DEBATE

• "Doom-laden Carney Warns Middle Classes Will Be 'hollowed Out' by New Technology"

  From The Daily Mail: Robots could put 15 million Britons out of work, the Bank of England Governor declared last night. In an alarming vision for workers, Mark... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 DEBATE

• Never Mind 'Soft' Or 'Hard', When Withdrawal, Wasn't Even Withdrawal

  We emphasise that our decision to bring about withdrawal in no sense represents any weakening of our commitment to internationalism and international co... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2016 DEBATE

• Meaningless Alcohol-related Statistics Of The Day

  From The Daily Echo-o-o: The "enormous" toll of excessive drinking on Britain's emergency services is laid bare in a new parliamentary report. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: "You Guys" and Who Whose Responsibility is Integration?

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: When somebody addresses you/your group as "You guys", he/she is… Trying to be friendly - 35%... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 DEBATE

• Monsters: Fact and Fiction (Wish I Knew the Difference)

  Actress Veronica Cartwright is planning to take film director Ridley Scott to court for damages, rumour has it. In the famous 'Belly Bursting' scene in Alien,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 DEBATE

• "Prince William is to Become Patron of Centrepoint"

  Official announcement from www.royal.uk (from 2005): Prince William is to become Patron of Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (407)

  I saw this one on Richard Murphy's blog a couple of months ago but forgot to save the link. It goes something like this: 1. If you look at the total assets of... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 DEBATE

• What Does the "capital" Mean in "capitalism"?

  Just thinking out loud, at its core, doesn't "capital" really mean "man-made labour saving devices which are of overall benefit to humanity"? Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 DEBATE

• Fun with Plain Packaging.

  I was a bit disappointed with the plain packaging, a misnomer if there ever was one. I was vaguely expecting something sleek and stylish, like Apple packaging... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 DEBATE

• A Bench of Kents

  From Kent Online: A stunned van driver was slapped with a hefty £200 fine – for not displaying a No Smoking sticker in his vehicle. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Picking Winners & "You Guys"

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Picking winners: which of the following should taxpayers subsidise? Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 DEBATE

• Mazda MX5 Mk2 Footwell Drainage Holes

  

  My driver's side carpet was awfully wet. After some prodding and poking I managed to find the emergency drainage hole. They weren't mentioned in the Haynes... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 DEBATE

• "This is Like Trying to Predict Earthquakes Or Hurricanes, They Don't Happen Ver...

  From the BBC: … Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is proposing an alternative that may be more in line with Donald Trump's... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 DEBATE

• "CCTV Captures Moment a Cow Creeps up and Attacks a Man in the Street - for No...

  Tweeted in by James Higham and JuliaM, from The Daily Mail: This moody cow decided to take some frustration out on an innocent bystander while it was having a... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Cost-plus

  The point of the post Economic Myths: Business Rates hike may force UK's shops to raise prices is that prices are set by where marginal revenue and marginal... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2016 DEBATE

• "Northern Ports Tempt Shippers Away from Dover After Migrant Crisis"

  Emailed in by Physiocrat, from the FT: Ports outside the south-east have benefited from disruption at Dover, helping them to win a greater share of Britain’s... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2016 DEBATE

• There's Nowt Like Plain Speaking Yorkshire Folk...

  From the BBC: The supermarket chain Morrisons is to revive the Safeway name for some of the food it makes for independent retailers... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: Business Rate Hike May Force UK's Shops to Raise Prices

  

  The Guardian repeats the usual bleating from the owners of retail premises: An analysis by Paul Turner-Mitchell, a business rates expert, and the property... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 DEBATE