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	<title>Francis Sedgemore</title>
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		<title>British intelligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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Forgive me, but I&#8217;m a little confused.
Following media and political attacks on the UK&#8217;s security services owing to their alleged collusion with CIA torture of suspected Islamist terrorists, we&#8217;ve had a gaggle of government ministers insist that Britain&#8217;s intelligence agencies are &#8220;the best in the world&#8221;. Yesterday, however, up popped a former director of MI5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion &#8211; you either love it or you hate it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Lord on a marmite jar lid&#8230;

&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a tough couple of months; my mum&#8217;s been really ill and it&#8217;s comforting to think that if he is there, he&#8217;s watching over us.&#8221;
Next, Our Lady in a toilet bowl.
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s full of stars!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NGC 346 (source: ESO) – click for a larger view
Over two hundred thousand light years away, in the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan), the young star cluster NGC&#160;346 is like many others. With images of such astronomical phenomena you see a relative concentration of points of light, and possibly a wispy nebular of gas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Foot dies, pound remains unchanged</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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The headline above may seem unkind, but rest assured that the target is not the late Michael Foot, but rather British media reporting of current affairs and one of the most principled politicians of the 20th century. I was never particularly keen on Foot&#8217;s Old Labour politics, but I like to think I can recognise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s official – Prince Charles and other senior members of the Windsor-Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha clan are at the heart of the British state, but entirely out of sight.
Are you aware that Westminster MPs voted last night to amend freedom of information rules so as to provide an absolute exemption for top royals? I thought not. That&#8217;s because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better a damp rag than a pile of steaming shit</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2010/03/better-a-damp-rag-than-a-pile-of-steaming-shit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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Gobby Little Englander Nigel Farage MEP is overly fond of overblown metaphors, but all of us who are unconstrained by the need for political and diplomatic niceties can play that game. Farage may think that he belongs in this category, but his recent outburst in the European Parliament could so easily come back to bite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gwyl Dewi Sant 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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Wales&#8217; finest wish you a happy St David&#8217;s Day.
Yacky dar!
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		<title>Clouds and hazes on Venus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venus Express reveals the complex cloud patterns of our neighbouring planet
For earthbound sky watchers Venus is the bright star that chases the Sun below the horizon in the western evening sky. When it comes to scientific knowledge of our neighbouring planet, popular accounts often paint a Dantean picture of a fiery cauldron with a crushingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Politiken (1884-2010)</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2010/02/rip-politiken-1884-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re my bitch now, Mr Seidenfaden!&#8221;, says Saudi lawyer Faisal Yamani.
Denmark&#8217;s once respected broadsheet newspaper Politiken yesterday lost its battle with journalistic integrity, and gave up the ghost in a deep sigh of petite-bourgeois liberal angst. The funeral will be a private affair, attended only by a small number of shame-faced hacks and members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gib ihm einen Klaps, Angie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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Go on girl, give the cheeky sod a slap!

He&#8217;s asking for it.
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