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		<title>I’m taking time out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a book to finish and I need to give it my full attention&#8230;I&#8217;ll be back &#8211; probably in about six months.]]></description>
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		<title>The British Constitution needs booked into the Priory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this brilliant white board animation of Professor Stein Ringen’s assessment of New Labour and the state of the British Constitution purely by accident. It’s fascinating and his conclusions are absolutely on the money. See if you agree! Stein Ringen is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Why would anyone ever vote Libdem again? What might change peoples’ mind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of the result of the Eastleigh by-election, it’s a racing certainty that the LibDems are going to be annihilated in 2015. Political oblivion beckons, and it may be that the party will cease to exist. So, if you were a Libdem, what would you do? The current leadership seems to be in denial, convinced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contrived contrition and a game of Banksters’ Bluff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays like doing their dirty washing before anybody else does. And so it was this week when a well- rehearsed Antony Jenkins, their fresh-faced new chief executive, was pushed in front of the cameras to tell us that from now on it’s all going to be different at Barclays, that they’ve ‘learned lessons’ (if I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will the US stop paying Israel to annex the West Bank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Israeli election clipped Netanyahu’s wings, but there is little doubt he will be the next Israeli prime minister. Who will be his coalition partner is yet to be decided, but it could be the extreme right wing Jewish Home party, whose avowed intent is to bring about the complete annexation of the West [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why clever Michael Gove is so foolish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Gove’s elitist agenda is about to take English education back to the dark days of the 1950s. His so-called reforms are supposed to transform English education. They will do nothing of the sort. Why? Because he’s attempting to reform a broken model. He’s tinkering at the margins.  Nothing he is proposing will bring about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mother of All Parliaments should be in a Care Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It was in 1865 that John Bright used the phrase ‘the Mother of all Parliaments’. The full phrase is “England is the Mother of all Parliaments”.  It was used in a speech in support of reform of the electoral system, which culminated in the much delayed Reform Act of 1867, and gave the vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PR ‘fact bender’ Dave delivers a speech straight from ‘Distortion Central’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s no coincidence that our Prime Minister cut his teeth as a PR executive. Today’s speech on Britain’s future in Europe was a classic example of the fact benders’ art: distortion.  It was a lesson on how to confuse and manipulate an argument to achieve a desired outcome. Nothing wrong with that, you might argue. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon! Dave Cameron in ‘Fatal Distraction’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Treasury, soon to be renamed Micawber House, it’s been a very pleasant start to the year. Despite unhelpful mumblings from the usual quarters about a triple–dip, the spotlight has moved away, and for the first time for a long time, Gideon has been able to come out from behind his desk. And joy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They profit at your expense. The unassailable arrogance of the wealthy elite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In New York, the international insurance and financial services organization AIG, whose demise would have plunged the world into a depression that would have made the 1930’s depression look like a walk in the park had they not been rescued in the nick of time by the American tax payer, is now suing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The inevitable state of Israel and Palestine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US is seriously rattled by the Palestinian application for UN ‘non-member observer status’ which is due to be presented to the General Assembly on 29th November. Already accepted as a member of Unesco, their new status would allow the Palestinians to apply for membership of other UN organisations – and the ICC. This would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs! By their inaction politicians are leading us all to a very bad place</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are dealing with the darkest of bourgeois taboos. Of all the things on which the world has declared &#8220;war&#8221; in modern times, self-harming substances must be the daftest. Yet the result has been to destroy millions of lives, expend trillions of dollars, and helplessly corrupt sovereign states, from Afghanistan to Colombia. It is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Oh Mr Mitchell, in the name of God, go!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” The words of Leo Amery to Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons in 1940. Harsh words to a man who believed that he was doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Israel to show an example and give up its nuclear weapons?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be fooled that Israel thinks that Iran poses a nuclear threat to the so-called Jewish state. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s actually about the balance of power in the Middle East. He who has the nukes, rules – or at least is perceived to have an upper hand, a state of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello! Over here …in the long grass!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Over here&#8230;I’m in the long grass&#8230;.just having a poke around to see what I can find. What’s this? ‘Political Party Funding’? Well there’s a surprise! And what’s this attached to it? A note from Sir Christopher Kelly, “Do something before this one blows up in your face”. Good advice, Sir Christopher, but  I don’t [...]]]></description>
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