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   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/07/musical-crying-sobbing-curtain</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>As the curtain rose, everyone was sobbing. I’ve never seen so many people crying at a musical</em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:12:09 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>There’s no one more British than me: I own a Union Jack bikini. It doesn’t fit but I still wear it down the high street</em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 13:10:28 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Hay-on-Wye? More like Hair-on-Wye, with more grey bouffants than you’d see at an Einstein lookalike contest</em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Mum asks the TV psychic questions live on air as Dad watches the show and takes notes</em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>“Don’t worry,” the organiser said. “The crowd are very PC.” I couldn’t have been more scared</em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:15:33 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Me and Madonna, shopping for cauliflowers in Crouch End</em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:47:35 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Is there no door policy at the House of Commons? We need some burly bouncers to keep out drunken MPs </em></p>

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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:48:19 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Here in the US, there are just two issues that matter: the economic crisis and Octomom</em></p>

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   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2009/03/mum-daughter-mother-funny</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:49:45 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>For my mother, the only thing worse than having a daughter is having a funny one</em></p>

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   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/02/snow-someone-internet-road</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:29:07 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Shazia Mirza</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Snow makes people do odd things. Suddenly, it's OK to start walking in the middle of the road</em></p>

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