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		<title>Could Covid-19 change politics for a generation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now when we slam the door shut, we can't tell whether we have trapped ourselves inside with the monster.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Album Review &#8211; Goldfrapp &#8211; Tales of Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp were never going to give us something we expected. In their fourteen year, six album, career they have constantly reinvented themselves and on the way, if they haven’t actually created the genre they most probably provided us with the definitive benchmark of how it should sound. The only exception to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Heartbeat: A journey through the fiestas of Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simon Prichard’s well written account of his half year touring the fiestas of Spain provides a unique perspective of this colourful country. From the pub lined lanes of Benidorm to the solemn streets of San Vincente de la Sonsierra, he sought out the most interesting examples of the nation’s local festivities. Almost always religiously inspired [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Album Review &#8211; Daughter &#8211; If You Leave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why So Pale and Wan? This is a record which was never going to set your pulse racing. In fact it is far more suited for wafting round the house or for suffering from a nasty dose of unrequited love. The landscapes of the London trio’s first album are certainly starkly beautiful yet the lyrics [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book review &#8211; Hawthorne &#038; Child by Keith Ridgeway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well I enjoyed reading this book immensely but I really haven’t got a clue what the hell it was about. It masquerades as a novel but basically it is a collection of short stories.  It starts off (and finishes) well, with Hawthorne and Child racing to a call-out, but the intervening chapters veer off in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on <a href="https://renfrewmatic.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/shes-on-the-side-of-the-angels-val-mcdermid-on-lund-the-killing/">RENFREWMATIC</a>: <br />A couple of months ago, I was fortunate enough to have a very interesting conversation with Val McDermid about Sarah Lund and The Killing. I caught her before she gave a reading from her new book, Vanishing Point, at Bristol Central Library for a piece I was writing for Diva Magazine.&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A to-do list</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was so inspired after attending the Festival of Writing that today I spent my train ride to London writing a to-do list. It&#8217;s the sort of thing people often do in the morning, although I expect my one was a little different. This is what it contains:- Create more conflict in the office. Introduce [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy days are here again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going camping. Whoopee. There&#8217;s a big ol&#8217; storm heading our way and we&#8217;re going to be stuck  in a tent. I can&#8217;t wait. It&#8217;s summertime in England so that means that we all get out there and commune with nature; except we wont be. What we will actually be doing is enduring another hellish weekend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A night of crime in Bedford Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I did something today that will change me for ever. I went to my first ever literary seminar. It was at the Bloomsbury Publishing offices in London and it was amazing. I&#8217;m not kidding you when I tell you that there were real authors there, people who have actually written books that the public have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Appliances should be seen but not heard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My dishwasher has started beeping recently. I don&#8217;t know how or why it&#8217;s got this habit but it is bloody annoying. It&#8217;s almost as if it&#8217;s saying: &#8216;Look at me, I&#8217;ve just done your washing up, aren&#8217;t I great!&#8217; Well big deal! I don&#8217;t really care. I&#8217;ve had dishwashers before and that&#8217;s what you are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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