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      <title><![CDATA[PMQs: “Father“ Ed’s sermon fails to convert the flock]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A feisty PMQS in Westminster today, but props beat sermons writes our UK Political Editor Harry Cole]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shut up and be offended]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The next glib comment or unfortunate slip of the tongue will no doubt be uttered by someone without the star power of the BBC’s prized presenter. And when it is we need to remember it is our right to be offended but that not everybody shares our objections]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[European democracy is on the edge of the abyss]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It’s been moving this way for some time, but now Europe’s leaders are going to have to answer a simple question on democracy: For, or against?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fantasy Budget: The real options open to Osborne]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former Treasury official, James Dowling knows, first hand, what the upcoming budget marathon is all about. Here are George Osborne's options as he sees them]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights versus freedom of expression]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The glaring discrepancy between the Court’s invention of new rights nowhere to be found in the ECHR and its hostility towards free speech underscores the urgent need for reform]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Europe prays for Fortuna but may end up with Nemesis]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Greece signed away more of its sovereignty this morning in the hope that it can recover from its debt problems. But with even the Troika warning it may not work, the ordinary Greek is being sacrificed on the altar of Europa]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday - time for Global economic lent]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Banks have to undergo a period of global economic lent; they’ve eaten too many flat pancakes already… and so have we]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[One nation under CCTV]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Big Brother Watch report, released today, highlights that local councils have spent over £515 million on CCTV cameras over the last four years. But the price of surveillance is more than just money]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Former top Bush ally John Bolton on Iran, Israel and Obama's MidEast failures]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Obama's MidEast policy is in disarray, says John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN in the Bush administration]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The politics of a strike on Iran]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To say the Iranian issue is somewhat complex is an understatement of nuclear proportions. Indeed, the politics at play make the outlook overwhelmingly bleak]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[China is playing a shrewd long game]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The west needs to take seriously the Chinese success story. It also needs to be aware that if too much technology and too many raw material deposits are sold, earning our living will be more precarious and difficult, writes The Rt Hon John Redwood MP]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[British involvement in a dangerous Middle East provocation]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Global March to Jerusalem, the latest high-profile stunt against Israel, involves the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Iranian-linked elements, not to mention a significant British contingent]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Argentina’s twisted sense of humour over the Falklands]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argentina may be a democracy, but it is behaving like a country with a twisted sense of humour when it comes to its own record over the Falkland Islands, whose security cannot be left to trust]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scottish independence? Consider the break-up of the USSR and Yugoslavia for some lessons]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A former British ambassador, with intimate knowledge of what happens when states break up, considers the implications of a disintegration of the United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky’s half-truths and distortions are still loved by the British Left]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Guardian has given one of its great heroes a platform to spout forth on the decline of American power and the manifold sins of its past, but it’s all subterfuge]]></description>
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