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   <title><![CDATA[For the good of the country, Osborne must go]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:41:38 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>It is time for David Cameron to cast off the godfather who has become a liability</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Jeremy Clarkson isn’t Everyman, he’s Reptonman]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:43:16 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Clarkson has shown his lack of class again by attacking Mandelson</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Our battle was begun on the playing fields of Eton]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:51:49 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
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   <title><![CDATA[The absolute swine]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:38:24 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
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   <title><![CDATA[Was it Andy wot won it?]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:46:12 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
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   <title><![CDATA[Pulling the puppet’s strings]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Writing Cameron's speech has become a Babelian muddle</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Meet the candidate – a complete fruitcake]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:56:52 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>So damned fluid are the classes these days, I had seemingly mistaken mistress for maid</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Notting Hell of Osborne’s celebrity dinner ]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:19:24 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>At dinner Osborne placed me between Dominic Mohan and someone called Alan Davies</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Coulson, a twit at the wicket]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:07:15 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
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   <title><![CDATA[The many self-sacrifices of Citizen Hague]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:40:53 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Gideon Donald</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>When he drops the bluff Yorkshireman act Hague can be passable company.</em></p>

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