Markwadsworth

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• BBC at It Again

  

  From the BBC: Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - came third with 6.6% of the vote, with the party's leader and candidate Richard Tice describing it as a... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2021 DEBATE

• The Party Which Must Not Be Named

  From the BBC: Sweden's first ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed. Magdalena Andersson, was announced as leader on... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2021 DEBATE

• "Landlords Cash in with £100,000 Cop26 Rentals"

  Emailed in by MBK, from The Times: It is billed the “best last chance to save the planet” but Cop26 has given Glasgow landlords a chance to save for the future... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2021 DEBATE

• Covid Seems to Go in Four-month Waves

  

  We know that each country's Covid reporting is flawed - some over-report, some under-report, for whatever reason. It seems highly unlikely that similar and... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2021 DEBATE

• "It's Different This Time."

  Spotted by Lola. From This Is Money: The Bank of England is considering easing mortgage rules in a move that could boost house prices. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2021 DEBATE

• It Takes One to Know One and Causation/correlation

  From MSN News: The climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed Cop26 as a “failure” and a “PR event”. “The leaders are not doing nothing, they are actively... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2021 DEBATE

• Calculating the Speed of a Falling Object Etc. Using the Physics Approach.

  I like doing a bit of mental arithmetic, when I'm in a boring meeting or lying awake at night. A typical challenge is calculating the speed of falling objects;... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2021 DEBATE

• Something Else That LVT Would Sort Out?

  It is difficult to see how to sort this mess out, even with LVT and a free market (as opposed to a crony capitalist "free" market). Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2021 DEBATE

• Is Climate Alarmism a Religion?

  From the BBC: Thousands of activists arrived in Scotland's largest city to make their climate change concerns known. They included Greta Thunberg who was... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2021 DEBATE

• "Oh No, They Won't!"

  From This is Money, spotted by Mombers: Forecast rises in interest rates could force landlords to raise rents to meet mortgage affordability criteria, or risk... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2021 DEBATE

• When Being Wrong Has Never Made You Look So Stupid.

  From The Evening Standard: Half of over-50s have had Covid booster jab... At least 6.1 million booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been delivered across the... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2021 DEBATE

• When Being Wrong Has Never Felt So Right.

  

  At the very least, the correct answer should be "All four answers" but strictly speaking, it would be "All five answers" because the answer "All five answers" i... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2021 DEBATE

• They Own Land, Give Them Money!

  (You know, we really should be numbering these posts) The latest government initiative in their campaign to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2021 DEBATE

• Weekly Deaths England & Wales to October 2021

  

  Here's the chart based on ONS data. In April and May, we were undershooting the 2015-19 average, it's crept up since then and we are now about 1,000... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2021 DEBATE

• Why is There No Greenhouse Effect in the Desert?

  The GHE is calculated by working out the effective/expected temperature of 'the surface' of a planet by just looking at how much radiation it absorb (i.e. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2021 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (490)

  One objection that often floats about is that while you can establish reasonably reliable relative values for generic types of land and buildings - urban... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2021 DEBATE

• "Now We're Short of Bus Drivers!"

  From The Daily Mail: The driver shortage across the UK has now spread into the bus network as public transport staff swap bus routes for work as truckers. Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2021 DEBATE

• "Was the Switch to Green Fuel Behind the Petrol Crisis?"

  Asks The Daily Mail: Retailers have blamed the spiralling petrol crisis on the government's switchover to greener fuel. Industry leaders said they had been... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2021 DEBATE

• "Heat Rises" and Other Alarmist Fairy Tales...

  

  Sorry to come back to this, but it has been bugging me for days. Joseph Postma posted a video on YouTube. He is top man and a "climate denier" but he has sadly... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2021 DEBATE

• Sounds Like a Massive Rent Seeking Scam to Me.

  From The Guardian: Countries and organisations planning to host events at vital UN climate talks in Glasgow next month have said they fear that increased costs... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2021 DEBATE