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	<title>Francis Sedgemore</title>
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	<description>journalist, writer and recovering physicist</description>
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		<title>On the &#8220;incident&#8221; in Woolwich</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woolwich is my manor. Back in the late 1970s I went to school close to John Wilson Street, and today often cycle down the road on my way to the ferry. The kitchen knife and meat cleaver-wielding youth with bloodied hands pictured in a video broadcast all over the interwebs is a product of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The space age thang</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It speaks volumes about the neurotic British obsession with youth that an otherwise interesting lifestylee article on the UK&#8217;s first official European Space Agency astronaut carries the headline &#8220;Major Tim Peake says he is not too old to go into space&#8221;. What on Earth is that all about? I mean, the last thing you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Venezuelan revolution going down the crapper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two months following the death of its little red leader Hugo Chávez, it looks as if his Catholo-Trostskyite revolution may not be so permanent after all. According to an Associated Press report, the &#8220;pink tide&#8221; at the top of Latin America is fast turning into a shit tide, with nary a sheet of toilet paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clearing up a climate of misunderstanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear much talk of a scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, or at least we used to. Global warming has since fallen down the political agenda. At the same time there is a challenge to the thesis from mostly but not exclusively right-wing commentators who claim that there is no scientific consensus. They insist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cycle ride: The Delights of Newham, 18 May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where: The Delights of Newham (Greenwich feeder) When: Saturday 18 May 2013 Meet: 09:00 @ Cutty Sark Gardens, SE10 9LW (by the foot tunnel entrance) Our friends in Newham are currently running a series of Saturday rides, with support from the borough council. After speaking recently with Bernard McDonnell and Emma Harper of Newham Cyclists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O Canada, you are so polite.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unable to sleep last night, I surfed the TV airwaves, alighting upon a SWAT-style police drama that within milliseconds revealed itself to be a Canadian effort. Flashpoint centres on the work of the fictional &#8220;Strategic Response Unit&#8221; of the Toronto Police, and it&#8217;s the usual funky combat fatigues, helmets, goggles, kneepads, assault rifles, pockets bristling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>29th place for British press freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders has just published its World Press Freedom Index for 2013. Apologies for being so parochial, but what immediately strikes me about this document is that it shows the United Kingdom in 29th place out of the 179 states listed. There are no obviously dodgy states above the UK in the latest press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printed electronics from lab to fab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst the electronics industry and its gadget-addled followers obsess over computer and mobile device processors and advanced graphics capabilities, the more interesting advances are being made in relatively simple technologies that should vastly expand the economic, geographical and cultural scope of microelectronics. I am thinking for example of the use of age-old printing techniques to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drums fall silent for unlikely Marlboro Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[English composer Steve Martland has died suddenly at the tender age of 53. The cause of death is not reported, and it comes to me as a bit of a shock. Martland first came to my attention in the early 1980s with his large orchestra piece Babi Yar. I had grown up listening to art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cycle ride: Locks, Docks &amp; One Smoking Ferry, Sunday 12 May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Monday&#8217;s 120 kilometre epic, my next ride for the Dog &#038; Bell Crew will be a short and leisurely London loop, being a variation on the late Barry Mason&#8217;s Locks, Docks and One Smoking Ferry ride. Only 45 kilometres or thereabouts (70 Li), but still worth getting out of bed for. Starting at Cutty [...]]]></description>
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