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	<description>physicist, journalist and science writer</description>
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		<title>Burn the Wapping Witch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit to a twinge of schadenfreude on hearing the news this morning that former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been charged along with her husband Charlie and diverse others with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. This is a serious criminal allegation which could lead to a substantial prison sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thames cable car &#8211; sick bags advised</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was cycling around the London docklands, on the day that the passenger gondolas for the new Thames cable car were first being tested. I have followed with interest the construction of the so-called &#8220;Emirates Air Line&#8221;, which is recently re-elected Tory mayor Boris Johnson&#8217;s latest vanity project. Seeing the cars installed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leveson Inquiry (part 9,999) &#8211; With friends like this, who needs enemies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tory nobs need no help in public portrayal as prats, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped former News of the Screws editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks stabbing her close friend David Cameron in the back with a reference today at the Leveson Inquiry to the prime minister&#8217;s understanding of ‘textspeak’. Next, Rupert Murdoch uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This hairdresser killed fascists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English Jew, Second World War soldier, football fanatic and hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, co-founder of the Brownshirt-bashing 43 Group, is no more. A sad loss to humanity, following a life well lived.]]></description>
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		<title>The Interwebs: a reflection of a sad, sick world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said by many, myself included, that blogs, pseudoblogs and other Internet discussion forums bring out the worst in people. That is, in an environment inhabited by vicious trolls with silly monikers, in which no-one knows you&#8217;re a dog, there is a tendency to unleash one&#8217;s inner wanker. The rest is good business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A penguin named Francis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt with too much time on their hands, and an overactive imagination straining under the crushing weight of an international civil service bureaucracy, this afternoon input the following search string into Google… &#8220;francis sedgemore virtualised emperor penguin&#8221; Peculiar, maybe, but at least they had the decency to use proper European spelling.]]></description>
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		<title>All you need is faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some years now, medialand has been going downhill, at least in terms of remuneration for journalists. The principal qualifications for a media career today are wealthy and well-connected parents, and a willingness to work for free. The Huffington Post model now prevails in comment journalism, and staff positions within media companies are increasingly filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ken &amp; Boris Show &#8211; a hideous beauty pageant nears its sorry end</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Londoners go to the polls tomorrow to elect a mayor whose realm stretches from Enfield and Romford in the north and east, to Biggin Hill and Uxbridge in the south and west. Greater London is a vast metropolitan area, home to some eight million souls. Also to be elected are 25 members of the London [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfit and improper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since when has &#8220;fit and proper&#8221; been a necessary criterion for the leadership of an international company? I ask this in all seriousness, as there is no end of lying, cheating and goodness knows what else bastards running multinational concerns. And some of them are contributors to the coffers of Britain&#8217;s major political parties. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primal City &#8211; Jack&#8217;s alive!</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2012/05/primal-city-jacks-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 09:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belated Beltane greetings! Yesterday I was out in the heart of the Great Wen, and across the river in Southwark, with the Mayday procession of the Deptford Jack in the Green. It must be a bit of a shock for the business-suited toiling ants of the City of London to see all this primal greenery [...]]]></description>
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