Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Business Rates Revaluation: Government Missed a Right Old Trick.

  Much squealing about something that has been in the offing for seven years, people act surprised that it actually happened. Tenants or buyers should have used... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 DEBATE

• ... Or They Could Cut out the Middleman and Just Build Social Housing.

  Emailed in by Ralph Musgrave from Property Week: The accelerated construction fund, announced at this week’s Conservative Party conference, will be used to... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 DEBATE

• Life Copies Satire

  Echoing this week's egg-themed Brexit Poll, congenital Home-Owner-Ist and hereditary MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that he wants a hard white Brexit with a runny... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 DEBATE

• "Build Homes with Smaller Rooms So Landlords Can Afford Them, Tory Housing...

  From The Independent: Private housing developers should build homes with smaller rooms that do not meet existing minimum space standards so that landlords can... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From today's Evening Standard: Regarding your article on business rates, there is hope for London's retail and office tenants. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 DEBATE

• Another Home-Owner-Ist Milestone Looms on the Horizon...

  Emailed in by Lola from CityWire: Pensions minister Richard Harrington has said people should be able to use retirement savings to buy a house. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 DEBATE

• Guardian Missing the Point Most Gloriously as Per Usual.

  From The Guardian: To understand why, despite the recent funeral orations, liberalism is very much alive, you have to go back to the 1860s and the abolition of... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 DEBATE

• "Financial Contagion"

  There have been lots of explanations offered for why a fall in land prices affects the wider economy, which is like the tail wagging the dog. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2016 DEBATE

• Stupid Idea Of The Day

  From the BBC: Thousands of lorries could be banned from London to make the roads safer for cyclists, under plans proposed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2016 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  Stressed-out Barclays banker 'murdered his wife in their £2million Surrey mansion with an avalanche of 120 axe and knife blows after she said she wanted a... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Politicians, Sugar & "hard" Brexit.

  The results to last week-and-a-half's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Which of these politicians avoids sugar? Jeremy Corbyn - 54% Nigel Farage - 6% Both -... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2016 DEBATE

• David Triggs' Law of Rent

  He summed up the recent IU conference with one final thought, he said there are so many theories and explanations regarding land rent (von Thünen, Ricardo... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2016 DEBATE

• Stupid Advertising Slogan

  The one for Quorn, where Mo Farah is running a burger van has annoyed me for ages. The slogan is: "When healthy food tastes great, you forget it's healthy"... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 DEBATE

• Yes, Yes, but What About Behind Bike Sheds?

  From The Guardian: Smoking should be banned in all parks and playgrounds to reduce the chances of children growing up thinking that using cigarettes is normal,... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 DEBATE

• My Talk on How the Council Tax System Can Easily Be Tweaked to Be Much Like...

  Here's my summary of a fifteen-minute talk I did last weekend, I think that some people understood it, or at least understood that I understood it. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2016 DEBATE

• Friday Night Gear Change

  

  I haven't heard a decent* new gear change in ages, but my brother in law stepped into the breach. * All gear changes are inherently awful of course, they are th... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2016 DEBATE

• "The Gravito-Thermal Greenhouse Effect"

  It appears that I have wasted all week trying to explain this effect, which seems blindingly obvious to me as it fits in with everything else we know about... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2016 DEBATE

• Politics of a Citizens Income Paid from a Land Value Tax

  

  The following assumes no other changes to our tax and benefits system whatsoever. According to Savills residential property values in the UK are £6,165bn.... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 DEBATE

• Gravity is More Or Less the Same as Acceleration.

  From Quora: Q: Obviously, the source of acceleration (without gravity) is transfer of energy from one object to another or change of its own energy structure... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 DEBATE

• "What Happens to the Temperature When an Ideal Gas is Compressed?"

  From here: In Lectures of physics, vol 1 by Feynman, it is written: "Suppose that the piston moves inward, so that the atoms are slowly compressed into a smalle... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2016 DEBATE