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	<title>The Bleeding Heart Show</title>
	
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	<description>The Bleeding Heart Show is a blog of under-rehearsed and over-caffeinated stammerings from a 23-year-old office worker living in the suburbs of Sheffield. From time to time, the blog will contain ill-informed missives on British/American politics, popular culture and other miscellaneous outbursts that will only ever make sense to the author.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Open primaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[British Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few months, we&#8217;ve heard a lot about what Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign could teach British progressives (indeed, I&#8217;ve been more guilty of that than most), but too much has been vague hypothesising  and rueful &#8216;what ifs&#8217;, rather than a practical sense of how to get started. So I think Sunder Katwala&#8217;s support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The positives of piracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[British Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music, Art, Etcetera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was thinking about cracking-down on illegal file-sharing with legislation, today’s statement by the major internet service providers (ISP) could’ve been worse. Whilst the idea of ‘cease &#38; desist’ letters to internet users is certainly intrusive, their promise not to ‘spy’ on their customers suggests they’re more concerned with being seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny, rotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Idiot Hall of Fame]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For pretty much his entire career, John Lydon&#8217;s personified the very worst side of punk: the arrogance, the petulance, the needless, unthinking aggression. All of which you can get away with, I suppose, when you&#8217;re on the sunny side of 30. But when you carry this behaviour on to the age where your bus pass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuck the future!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Onion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No values voters have trouble getting excited about the candidates for President. I actually heard a rumour that Bob Barr eats kittens, but if having a President with no values mattered so much to them, they should&#8217;ve supported Dick Cheney when they had the chance&#8230;
 
Note to the New Yorker: this is how you do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karadzic arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good. For everyone who despaired when Milosevic died whilst his trial was still ongoing (he was held in the Hague for five years - time enough, you&#8217;d think, to prosecute a genocidal maniac), Karadzic&#8217;s arrest gives hope that his victims might still see justice brought. That said, given the excruciating length of time it took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoners treated like shit. Literally.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[British Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prison Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just another day in the cushy life at Her Majesty&#8217;s Holiday Inn:
Some prisoners are living and sleeping in toilets because of jail overcrowding, a report says. HM Inspectorate of Prisons found Doncaster jail held almost 200 more inmates than it had been intended for. Two-man cells had been turned into three-man cells by putting an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welfare as work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[British Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[James Purnell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth noting, I suppose, that the welfare reforms announced by James Purnell are not quite as brutal as some of the ideas floated in the past; at least Caroline Flint&#8217;s threat to throw the jobless out onto the street was too brutal even for the Department of Work &#38; Pensions. Indeed, I&#8217;m sure the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubbish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I might try and post something more substantive about the Purnell welfare plans this evening, but this headline really stuck out:
Jobless to be made to pick up litter under welfare plans
There happens to be a slight problem with this proposal: there are already people who&#8217;re paid to sweep streets &#38; pick up litter. My uncle&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘clutching at straws’ school of journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shorter Sarah Baxter: Barack Obama&#8217;s world tour is frought with political peril because&#8230; he&#8217;s only up by four points in the national polls and (the shock! the horror!) he hasn&#8217;t won Angelina Jolie&#8217;s vote yet.
Not content with bringing us this profound analysis, she then points out that Obama&#8217;s ratings on foreign policy aren&#8217;t as high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muppet smut</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via t&#8217;other Neil, who seems to have a radar for such debauchery, a video that sullies my entire childhood:

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