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   <title><![CDATA[Nurses, cricket and anti-Semitism]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:52:17 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>We should value nurses' distinctive qualities, not force them to take degrees</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Lisbon, chaos theory and poppies]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:43:16 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>The Tories have deluded themselves that Britain can enjoy trading advantages without the drawbacks of reduced sovereignty</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Drugs rows, Aids denial and the post]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:55:47 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Legalising all drugs would raise billions in revenue</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Rory Stewart, Who’s Who and clubs]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:51:49 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Jason Cowley</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Stewart is a man of action and a man of letters of a kind you no longer find in British politics</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[The wrong war, being PC and Bono]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:48:58 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Mehdi Hasan</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Joe Biden could yet rescue the Obama presidency from a military quagmire in Afghanistan</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Schools, fools and Rod Stewart]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:38:24 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>My modest proposal to undermine public schools</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Another Freud, Mrs Brown and cats]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:46:12 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Perhaps David Freud could devote some of his time to getting bankers into useful work</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Pangloss, pills and dinner ladies]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:13:02 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Gordon Brown should delay the election until 3 June.</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Cuts, consultants and book-buying]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>The failure to address the underlying causes of crime, drugs and family breakdown costs the UK economy billions</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Eat canapé, avoid catastrophe]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:56:52 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Peter Wilby</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>. . . on the 10:10 luvvies, Keith Waterhouse, and football’s castrati</em></p>

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