Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (398)

  This one arrived via email, he knows who he is: … as for land tax… good luck with that… I haven't got the foggiest clue about how you could explain that a high... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2016 DEBATE

• The Dangers of Running with Bulls.

  From The Daily Mail: A man from Valencia has died after being gored by a heifer in a bull-run near the southern Spanish town of Alicante. The deadly incident... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2016 DEBATE

• "Why We Are Calling for a Ban on Vets Offering Homophobic Remedies"

  From The Guardian: When I wrote my open letter to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) calling for a ban on the treatment of animals with homophobic... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Our Next PM & The Chilcot Report

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Please indicate the ones you would definitely NOT like to see as Prime Minister. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2016 DEBATE

• Gordon Brown Talks Sense: Shock!

  I missed this from a week ago, in The Telegraph: Ms Sturgeon has promised to examine all the options for keeping Scotland in the EU, and to table plans for a... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 DEBATE

• Consumerist Madness - EU Trying to Justify Itself?

  Here We know no facts from the article, so we need to deduce what's going on. Yes, credit card companies (and debit card suppliers) charge the retailer a fee fo... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 DEBATE

• Any Excuse is Good Enough for Another Land Price/credit Bubble...

  From the BBC: The Bank of England has warned there is evidence that risks it identified with Brexit are beginning to emerge. In a major report it states:... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2016 DEBATE

• Wolfgang Schäuble Confirms That George Osborne Put Him up to It

  In an interview with Welt Am Sonntag, Wolfgang Schäuble (German Finance Minister) has confirmed that he made this speech hinting that the UK would be punished i... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2016 DEBATE

• Well. Yes. Obviously.

  Here Try and ignore that fact that this is Osborne. You know the idiot that gave more arbitrary powers to HMRC. That thought that Help to Buy was a Good Idea.... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2016 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers - The European Investment Bank

  Via MBK from The Times: Billions of pounds of European funding for UK clean energy projects including offshore wind farms as well as universities and other big... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2016 DEBATE

• "Jeweesh Labour MP Ruth Smeeth Was Reduced to Teers at Labour’s antee-Semeeism...

  From the Neew Statesman: Speeking at a press conference on Labour’s antee-Semeetism inquiry report, Jeremy Corbyn joked: “Last summer, I called for a kinder,... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: UKIP MEPs & Future Prime Ministers

  The results to last week's poll were as follows: Now that their mission is accomplished, will UKIP MEPs resign en masse and renounce their Euro-pensions? Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 DEBATE

• "Watch out for the Latest Scam: Fake Clothing Recycling Bins"

  Says a press release from businesswaste.co.uk that somehow landed in my inbox: Local and national charities are being cheated out of income by ambitious crimina... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form...

  A rising star hedge fund manager won £110million by betting against the pound ahead of Britain’s vote on the European Union. James Hanbury, who manages... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 DEBATE

• Fun with Free Trade Deals

  From the Australian Financial Review: Australia's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Alexander Downer, says Britain's departure from the European Union... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2016 DEBATE

• Eurofail #1 - VAT

  From the LVT Campaign: The EU began as a noble concept. Unfortunately, it has consistently got the economics wrong, thereby sowing the seeds of its ultimate... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2016 DEBATE

• Quote of the Day (Well, Yesterday Actually)

  Driving along on our holibobs Mrs L reading out snippets of the news from her iPhone: "Coo, the Pope has announced that the Catholic Church has been too harsh o... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2016 DEBATE

• Interesting

  A good piece on 'Progressives'. Here Personally I think (on the definitions in the piece) that the progressives are right. We will end up with some sort of... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2016 DEBATE

• Project Fear - Yankee Style

  From an IBISWorld press-release: Britain’s exit, or Brexit, from the EU also sent the pound plunging to its lowest level since 1985. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2016 DEBATE

• International Law - Rules for Deporting Immigrants / Migrants - Help Needed

  This headline from the Torygraph. As I understand it this is France's problem not ours. That is these migrants have entered France illegally (or perhaps legally... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2016 DEBATE