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		<title>Making Money By Telling Women The Correct Way To Have Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/making-money-by-telling-women-the-correct-way-to-have-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/making-money-by-telling-women-the-correct-way-to-have-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post about rescuing fallen women, the Heresiarch examines how evidence-abusing ideologues compete to cash in on&#160;prostitution.]]></description>
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		<title>Animals Or Savages?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/animals-or-savages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some commentators who have opinionated about the recent murders in Afghanistan, murders supposedly committed &#8220;in response to&#8221; a US pastor&#8217;s burning a copy of the Koran, have resorted to what I ironically call &#8220;good racism&#8221;. Bad racism is what unemployed people living on council housing estates display when they blame their being unemployed on immigrants. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuka Umunna on slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/chuka-umunna-on-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/chuka-umunna-on-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuka Umunna in The Voice on the question of a UK government apology for slave&#160;trade: African slavery and colonialism are not simply remnants of the past – they helped lay the foundations for the successful modern Britain of today. The effects of slavery are still felt in our communities - many cite the matriarchal nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Rescuing Fallen Women</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/on-rescuing-fallen-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/on-rescuing-fallen-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent my first two terms at university up to my naked wrists in a woman&#8217;s corpse. This was A Good Thing For Humankind. This week, one of the top BBC News stories has been the outrage at a woman demonstrating a sex toy in front of a university psychology class. This was An Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Alternative Vote System: So Simple That An Attempt To Write A Simple Description Of It Leads To A Complicated Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/the-alternative-vote-system-so-simple-that-an-attempt-to-describe-it-simply-leads-to-a-complicated-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/the-alternative-vote-system-so-simple-that-an-attempt-to-describe-it-simply-leads-to-a-complicated-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Freeman questions one of the criticisms aimed against the Alternative Vote system (AV), which, in a referendum in May, citizens will be voting to adopt or reject in, er, preference to First Past The Post (FPTP) in UK elections. The criticism in question is that AV is too complicated and/or voters don&#8217;t/won&#8217;t understand how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This would be a good day to quote and laugh at some of the many racist articles written over the past few years that warned us not to &#8220;inflame the Arab Street&#8221;, that rhetorical mass of undifferentiated savages that &#8220;we&#8221; created by interfering in the Noble Civilizations of the region with our Imperialist Adventures, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Face-Saving Exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#160;reports: A former soldier who was jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan has handed back a medal in protest at Britain&#8217;s involvement in the&#160;war. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real up-swell of awareness now among military families and among the military, and among the people in this country, that this conflict is, has kind of turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross In Box</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/cross-in-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/cross-in-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the theme of suffrage, if you were unfortunate (and nerdy) enough to listen to Today In Parliament yesterday evening, you will have been treated to our law-makers displaying the sort of ignorance of the basics of the law and of European institutions that makes you embarrassed to be a British citizen as they debated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/the-not-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/the-not-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The always-interesting marketing guru Seth Godin wisely alerts citizens of democracies who fail to exercise their franchise because they claim to hate politicians to an important fact they have probably overlooked: many politicians want them not to&#160;vote: Political TV advertising is designed to do only one thing: suppress the turnout of the opponent&#8217;s supporters. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Mad?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/whos-mad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/whos-mad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin In The Margins makes an important criticism of an otherwise mostly admirable and well-intentioned&#160;enterprise: As for that plea for a focus on &#8216;tolerance&#8217;, it would have helped if the rally organisers hadn&#8217;t included a performer who has expressed the most outrageously intolerant opinions. Appearing onstage in the National Mall was Yusuf Islam, the singer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You To Want See A Briton Fight, Threaten To Bring Down The Price Of Her House</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/if-you-want-to-see-a-briton-fight-threaten-to-lower-the-price-of-her-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/if-you-want-to-see-a-briton-fight-threaten-to-lower-the-price-of-her-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rory Sutherland&#8217;s wiki man column in The Spectator is one of the few things remaining inside that magazine that might yet tempt me to buy another print copy. In his latest he sticks a finger through one of the biggest holes in the Tories&#8217; buckshot &#8220;Big Society&#8221; balloon of&#160;bullshit: In one sense, it seems, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/the-most-inalienable-and-sacred-of-all-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/the-most-inalienable-and-sacred-of-all-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am against bans on the wearing of the burqa or niqab in public1 therefore I am going to recommend that you read the best article I have read in favour of such&#160;bans: The argument that the garment is not a religious obligation under Islam is well-founded but irrelevant; millions of Muslims the world around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hamas Gets Up To When No One (Here) Is Looking</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/what-hamas-gets-up-to-when-no-one-here-is-looking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/what-hamas-gets-up-to-when-no-one-here-is-looking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Ricochet, Judith Levy illustrates her commentary on the state of the &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; with a picture of the effects of another rocket attack from Gaza on a rehabilitation centre for special needs kids in Israel two days ago. For &#8220;prison camp&#8221; guards, the Israelis are surprisingly&#160;easygoing. &#8230;the attack on Sderot took place twenty-four hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Replacing Elites</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/self-replacing-elites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/self-replacing-elites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield is broadly happy with his children&#8217;s French education, but he does have one&#160;complaint: French schools have absolutely no extra-curricular&#160;activities. There are no debating societies, no orchestras, no film clubs, no sports teams, no painting classes, no school newspapers, and no drama, at least none worthy of the&#160;name. This, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assimilation</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my most recent extended comment on That Bigoted Woman, I note The Mirror reports that Gillian Duffy, who wondered during the UK General Election where all those Eastern Europeans are flocking from, has come out in support of David Miliband for the position leader of the Labour Party. David Miliband is the offspring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Say I Didn&#8217;t Warn You</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/dont-say-i-didnt-warn-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/dont-say-i-didnt-warn-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is a&#160;phenomenon: Sarah Palin is a singular national industry. She didn’t invent her new role out of whole cloth. Other politicians have cashed out, used the revolving door, doing well in business after doing good in public service. Entertainment figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, and even Ronald Reagan have worked the opposite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flocking Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/flocking-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/flocking-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bigotgate&#8221; [Deliver us from the media&#8217;s standard scandal suffix!] has come to this: There&#8217;s a report on the BBC News Website that actually devotes a paragraph and two full-colour charts to a 30-minute dip in Twitter sentiment towards Gordon Brown in response to his tetchy grumbling to an aide in the back of his official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oops, Odone Again</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/whoops-odone-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/whoops-odone-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most literate adults in the UK know that The Daily Telegraph wants the Conservative Party to win the upcoming General Election. Those who have been following the recent public unravelling of that newspaper&#8217;s opinionist Christina Odone&#8212;she is to the Telegraph what Madeleine Bunting is The Guardian&#8212;know that she particularly wants the LibDems to do badly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/identity-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/identity-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, a friend of mine who still reads The Guardian [online&#8212;does anyone not looking for a public sector job still pay for the print edition?] drew my attention to a piece there about how success by the Liberal&#160;Democrats at the upcoming General Election could &#8220;push out black and Asian MPs&#8221;. That is, because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two excellent blog posts</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/03/two-excellent-blog-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first is at&#160;Freemania: The really important thing about Iraq:&#160;us Today Gordon Brown gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. This weekend, amid violent attacks on polling stations, Iraq holds an election. I wonder which will get the most&#160;coverage? The rest of the world exists primarily as a mirror for&#160;us. The second is at Skuds&#8217;&#160;place: A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunate headlines of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/02/unfortunate-headlines-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC News Website has changed its original&#160;headline: SARAH PALIN LASHES OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY&#160;CONVENTION &#8212;bring your houseboy, and let&#8217;s party like it&#8217;s 1779!&#8212;to this&#160;one: SARAH PALIN CONDEMNS OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY&#160;CONVENTION but, Liz Jones&#8217;s latest wibble&#8212;search for it if you like; I&#8217;m not going to link to it&#8212;retains its&#160;banner: HONOUR KILLINGS? WHAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggertarians, Tin Foil Hat Wearers, Loons</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/11/bloggertarians-tin-foil-hat-wearers-loons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foes of President Barack Obama and his policies can vent their frustrations by engaging in fictional warfare, thanks to a new online strategy game with a heavy political&#160;component. The satirical game 2011: Obama’s Coup Fails, launched last month by a group of Ron Paul supporters that call themselves The Founders, throws players into combat against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evans, Dear Boy, Evans</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/evans-dear-boy-evans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Paulie&#8217;s &#8220;Shared Items&#8221; feed at Never Trust a Hippy, I read on the Democratic Society Blog one of the best &#8220;Did Magna Carta die in vain?&#8221; comments ever [see foot of the post I link to] and, on Tory Troll, an account of yet another FAIL by frontline&#160;interviewers. Here&#8217;s a tip for the meedja [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell Of Home</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/the-smell-of-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been known to be uncomplimentary here about Tamworth, the town where I grew up. Back in the 80s, an Australian barman once told a friend of mine that, travelling around England, it was the place where he had been beaten up most frequently for being Australian. And he was&#160;white. Thanks to Paulie for drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making The Cars Run On Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/making-the-cars-run-on-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, said yesterday that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies and praised Adolf Hitler for his ability to &#8220;get things&#160;done&#8221;. Mr Ecclestone endorsed the concept of a government based on&#160;tyranny. &#8220;Politicians are too worried about elections,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit Of Lord Rothermere Lives On</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/the-spirit-of-lord-rothermere-lives-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every single &#8220;serious&#8221; newspaper in the UK led with Iran this morning. But The&#160;Daily&#160;Mail devoted its entire front page to an attack on Gordon Brown and the Iraq Inquiry, and The&#160;Express (alongside a photograph of a Euro Lotto winner cradling a giant cabbage) to asylum seekers, the largest group of whom before the war came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bringing this agenda towards fruition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The resignation of Hazel Blears reminded me again that this nation&#8217;s government now has a &#8220;Department for Communities&#8221;. Letting that phrase pass my lips without implied quotation marks would be like vomiting into my mouth without washing it&#160;out. Thanks to Kevin Harris&#8217;s &#8220;neighbourhoods&#8221; blog, I can sample a little of that department&#8217;s output, a review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Position Statement</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/04/position-statement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Freeman doesn&#8217;t see the sense in The Times capitalizing the words &#8220;Left&#8221;, &#8220;Right&#8221;, and &#8220;Centre&#8221; when its writers use them to describe political leanings. I think the newspaper is right to do&#160;so. Language is a communication channel, and shouldn&#8217;t be a fashion accessory or status symbol; however, in this country, more than many others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are They Now?&#8212;Taff Trot / Brummie Schoolboy Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/where-are-they-now-taff-trot-brummie-schoolboy-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 80s, I used to be in a band with a guy called Martyn Hope&#8212;indeed, we went to school together. Back in the 90s, having read that, surreally, Elvis revivalist Shakin&#8217; Stevens was a closet Red1, I went searching online to find out if he was a member of a late 70s cohort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Squeaky Wheelchair</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/the-squeaky-wheelchair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Evans worked for a company that built Websites for political organizations long before the current crop of johnny-come-latelys started twittering about &#8220;digital engagement&#8221; and &#8220;campaigning 2.0&#8221;. This post of his about the kinds of people who use the Net to harass politicians and the kind of people politicians should listen to&#8212;two groups that, in [...]]]></description>
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