Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (402)

  Emailed in by BenJamin, link to follow: "Loatheallpoliticians: Your idea for LVT is shi*t. No one will go near it and it hasn't a hope due to the myriad of [sic... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 DEBATE

• Beyond Smug.

  From the BBC: Private landlords in the UK received twice as much in housing benefit last year - £9.3bn - as they did a decade ago, a report says. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2016 DEBATE

• Anonymous Donations as Party Funding.

  The perception that individuals and organisations donate to political parties in order to influence policy and/or receive honors makes the public, rightly or... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 DEBATE

• Employment Vs Self-employment

  My post about the insane bribes for taxi drivers in Queensland turned into a jumbled slugfest about employment vs self-employment status. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 DEBATE

• Making Sense of Numbers (green C**p Edition)...

  

  The table below is the projected income statement from a 'community' hydro-electric project doing the rounds in Aberdeen. Do have a glance at the whole... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 DEBATE

• "Inheritance Tax: Why the New Duke of Westminster Will Not Pay Billions"

  The Guardian kicks off in usual whiney fashion: Had the Grosvenor estate bequeathed to the new Duke of Westminster been liable for 40% inheritance tax, the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 DEBATE

• "Virtuous Rent: a Rudder That Can Transform Our Economy"

  A great article from Evonomics forwarded by SJS. Worth reading in full (quite lengthy) but here is the salient bit: In Adam Smith’s view, landlords benefited... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Improving Standards in Education & Brexit Delays

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What should we do to improve standards in secondary education and increase social mobility? Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 DEBATE

• "Shallows and Amazons"

  from Wiki and Wiki: The film opens with a young boy kicking a soccer ball along the shore of a beach. He finds a GoPro camera attached to a helmet washed up on... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2016 DEBATE

• A Preposition is Somthing You Should Never End a Sentence With.

  A classic from yesterday's Evening Standard: As historian David Kynaston put it, “social mobility has become one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie causes to... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2016 DEBATE

• Insane Subsidy of the Day

  From The Daily Mail: * Uber and other ride-sharing services will be allowed to operate legally [in Queensland] * Taxis will be allowed to charge surge pricing... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 DEBATE

• "Despite Brexit Fears" is the New "underlying Warming Trend"

  I googled the phrase for fun and the first two pages gave me the following hits in the last week (ignoring duplicates): UK consumers carry on spending despite... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 DEBATE

• Ex-policemen Don't Need to Have a Number Plate on the Front of Their Car,...

  

  Yesterday, a beautifully restored 1960s E-Type passed me and stopped in front of the office next door to pick somebody up. An excuse for some gratuitous car... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 DEBATE

• Priceless

  All is doom and gloom... We're going to be £70Bn worse off... Yeah. Right. From the article... "...Official figures from the Office for National... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 DEBATE

• "No Sorry, the Speed Skating is Not on for Another Two Years..."

  

  ... says the German beach volleyball player politely, while making the international symbol for c**t behind her back. Pic from Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 DEBATE

• Muddled Argument for Contributory Benefits

  Ryan Bourne writes a largely sensible article about immigration in City AM, marred by this diagonal comparison: Indeed, the cost of immigration quotas can be... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 DEBATE

• UK Rents Higher Than in Europe? Why the High Net Migration?

  

  The IEA recently published a piece of work arguing that although the UK has high rents, rent controls will only make things worse. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 DEBATE

• If Pedantry Were an Olympic Event...

  It riles me that they all abbreviate "Rio de Janeiro" to "Rio". That's like abbreviating "New York" to "New" or "Sao Paolo" to "Sao". "Rio" is the least... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form...... Until It Commits a Terrorist Offence Under S.58A...

  The Mail recently ran a story about Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh under the banner that he "claimed £32,000 above £200,000-plus salary". This was... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 DEBATE

• Safe as (securitised) Houses...

  FT Alphaville's Kadhim Shubber, has been questioning the sanity of investors in property crowdfunding schemes: "The flat’s market value in January 2015 was... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 DEBATE