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   <title><![CDATA[Were You Up For Webcameron?]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[It's even worse than the worst Labour imagined. Martin Bright warns that if the Tories are smug about these results imagine how they will be after they win a general election]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[So what happens next...?]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Whatever the local election results, <strong>Gordon Brown</strong> faces a much bigger challenge: to convince sceptical voters that Labour deserves to stay in government]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Does Anyone Mean What They Say?]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister is losing the argument on 42 days, but Cameron is still unconvincing standing up for our freedoms]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Pulling the Finger Out]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[The liberal-left commentariat is stepping up to the plate now the government is in trouble]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Time for a New New Left Manifesto?]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[41 years ago, the New Left came up with a May Day manifesto to renew progressive politics. The time has come for just such a document for the 21st century left]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Gordon's big test]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[The authority of the Prime Minister is based on economic competence and on knowing how to win elections. The coming days will see these skills tested to the limit]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[An Unlikely Rebel]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[Stand up the first Labour MP to notice the implications of the abolition of 10p rate of tax]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[A Meeting of Civilisations ]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[The launch of the Quilliam Foundation was a meeting of Islam and the Enlightment without the usual apocalyptic language]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Nadhmi Auchi and the Observer]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[The Iraqi billonaire convicted of fraud in France has forced the Guardian-Observer to remove five articles from its website]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[What a way to run an investigation]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Martin Bright</dc:creator>
   <description><![CDATA[The Electoral Commission responds to my complaints about Ken Livingstone.]]></description>
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