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	<title>Gavin Orland</title>
	
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		<title>Campaign Against Light Sentencing</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/campaign-against-light-sentencing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shocked at the amount of ludicrously lenient sentences being handed down by UK Judges these days, for even very serious offences, I have started a group on the website Facebook. If enough people join, perhaps this will help apply pressure for the issue to be addressed.
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		<title>Elgar: Nimrod from the Enigma Variations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<title>The shape of things to come</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/the-shape-of-things-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1933 HG Wells wrote a novel called The Shape of Things to Come which speculated on future events between that date and the year 2106. Wells had some hits with his predictions and many misses.
If transatlantic trends up until now are anything to go by, the shape of things to come in the UK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yob Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/yob-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/yob-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Any reader of this blog will soon be able to see that one of my primary concerns is the extreme yobbishness of British society these days. I have recently been working at a large London advertising agency (not as a copywriter, I hasten to add, but as a digital developer) where I heard the F [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A trip to Manchester</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/a-trip-to-manchester/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/a-trip-to-manchester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have visited Manchester.  I have been here before, but this particular visit required me to walk through the centre of the city for perhaps 15 minutes.
During this short time I saw numerous flesh tunnels and tattoos, as one would anywhere, but also a gay homosexual couple, two transvestites (presumably transexuals) and a lesbian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote to have the religious slaughter exemption repealed</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/vote-to-have-the-religious-slaughter-exemption-repealed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/vote-to-have-the-religious-slaughter-exemption-repealed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really not writing as much these days, for two reasons:
Firstly I have been exceptionally busy with work. Secondly, I don&#8217;t feel the need quite as much. This is no doubt partly because I have been exceptionally busy with work: I haven&#8217;t been out  as much, meaning I haven&#8217;t seen as much. But another reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theodore Dalrymple on football</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/theodore-dalrymple-on-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/theodore-dalrymple-on-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To fail to recognise, or to pretend to fail to recognise, football&#8217;s  relatively lowly place on the scale of human accomplishment is to be  uncivilised – or, in the case of the dissimulator, to ally oneself with  enemies of civilisation, which is perhaps yet worse.&#8221;
- Theodore Dalrymple in this great essay
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		<title>New Order: Bizarre Love Triangle</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/music/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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Brings back memories.  
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		<title>Interesting quotation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/interesting-quotation-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/interesting-quotation-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society&#8221;
- attrib. Aristotle
This quotation is often attributed to Aristotle, however no source, to my knowledge, has ever been provided. In addition, apathy is not a virtue and tolerance is rarely a virtue, though it is often vaunted as one. Tolerance of the wrong things is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The modern lady</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/the-modern-lady/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/the-modern-lady/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just having my 5 minute weekly look at Facebook, which I am thinking of leaving altogether, and I noticed a group called &#8220;Polite individuals&#8221;. Unusual, you might think. Indeed, with its avowed mission &#8220;to see in the future a society that breeds kemptness, kindness, and  educated speech as a mainstay of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition to oppose political correctness</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/petition-to-oppose-political-correctness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/petition-to-oppose-political-correctness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 12:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit late in the day now, but here is a petition for parliamentary candidates to sign stating their opposition to the political correctness which has brought our country so low.
The party which shines brightest is UKIP. There are plenty of good statements worth reading there, including:
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a&#8230;&#8230;sorry, force of habit. Most things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unrealistic aspirations</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/unrealistic-aspirations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/unrealistic-aspirations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 14:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We should all work hard and try our best at everything we do. This much is surely uncontroversial. But watching this albeit moving incident of a girl breaking down in front of Gordon Brown recently put me in mind of the comments from Prince Charles of 2004. I thought at the time they were very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed voters</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/fixed-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/fixed-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You sometimes hear people say, on vox pops, &#8220;I&#8217;ve always voted Labour so I&#8217;ll vote Labour again this time&#8221;. Or &#8211; even more idiotic &#8211; &#8220;I come from a Labour voting family: me granddad voted Labour, me Dad voted Labour so I&#8217;ll vote Labour too. I just can&#8217;t imagine voting for any other party&#8221;.
What people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown’s gaffe</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/browns-gaffe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/browns-gaffe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown has made the mistake of calling one of his own supporters a &#8220;bigot&#8221; while he thought his mic was off because she was rightly concerned about Labour&#8217;s open door immigration &#8220;policy&#8221;.
This incident is quite revealing, I believe, because it shows not only that Mr Brown says one thing in public and another in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forthcoming election</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/forthcoming-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/forthcoming-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people remain unimpressed by any of the &#8220;main three&#8221; candidates for the forthcoming election. Brown has allowed incompetence and corruption within his party and almost every decision Labour makes seems to be wrong. Cameron comes across as somewhat slippery and fake and you have no idea what he really stands for. Clegg and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The £212 million phone system</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/the-212-million-phone-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/the-212-million-phone-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon, when you phone a company in the UK, to find yourself thereafter in a perpetual loop whereby you are passed from one person to the next, before you have time to protest, and then finally, after six people, you end up with the first one again, who cannot help you at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Miller on the threat from Islam</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/frank-miller-on-the-threat-from-islam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/frank-miller-on-the-threat-from-islam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading up about comic book creator and film director Frank Miller and I reached the section on his political views, in particular his views on the war in Iraq and the threat of Islam as it spreads across the western world. I presumed I was about to read the usual leftist views [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rossini: Matilde di Shabran</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/music/rossini-matilde-di-shabran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/music/rossini-matilde-di-shabran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rossini (like Donizetti) is often much underrated as an operatic composer. But behold this amazing piece as it build and builds, requiring immensely skilled singing by the performers as the tempo increases (it sounds almost like a tongue-twister) &#8211; yet they carry it off.
Click on the video for details of the piece and performance.











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		<title>An evening in central London</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/an-evening-in-central-london/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/an-evening-in-central-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I spend most of my time either working or at the gym. I rarely listen to the radio, because Radio 4, the only station offering relatively intelligent programmes, is excruciatingly politically correct. The music on Radio 3 (especially late in the evening) often seems to consist of little more than dustbin lids being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MP calls for burqa ban</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/mp-calls-for-burka-ban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/mp-calls-for-burka-ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brave MP Philip Hollobone (who also happens to be the &#8220;cheapest&#8221; MP in Westminster) has come out and called for a complete ban of the burqa in Britain.
This garment is obviously very anti-social. It also indicates a backward mindset which does not value evidence (namely that of Islam) and it is a security risk. All [...]]]></description>
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