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		<title>&#8220;I heard the news today, oh boy&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2011/10/i-heard-the-news-today-oh-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;which many will recognise as the opening line of the Beatles song, &#8220;A Day in the Life&#8221;.  Unfortunately, I had to change the next line to &#8216;&#8230;and was as angry as Hell&#8217; rather than &#8216;About a lucky man who made the grade&#8217;. Today, on Westminster Bridge in London, people protesting against Government Plans to &#8216;reform&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left to Apple, 2014 could be like 1984&#8230;revisited&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us of a certain age in IT will remember Apple&#8217;s famous TV advert for the groundbreaking &#8216;Macintosh&#8217; computer back in 1984.  The advert, here on You Tube, portrayed how the Mac would free computer users from the grasp of the evil Corporate Computer giants (such as IBM and Microsoft) and did a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks &#8211; &#8216;Heat&#8217; magazine for the Political classes?</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/12/wikileaks-heat-magazine-for-the-political-classes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hear me out on this one. I&#8217;ve been a political animal for over half my life; for me it came with the turf of being working class boy, avoids going down the pit by going to university, comes home and sees the five pits that I could see from my bedroom window as a kid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A case of censorship and wrongful imprisonment?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/12/a-case-of-censorship-and-wrongful-imprisonment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has absolutely nothing to do with Wikileaks. Or maybe it does. All stories like this have two sides, and it&#8217;s inevitable that we only get to see one side of it &#8211; and perhaps therein lies the Wikileaks link &#8211; it would be so nice to see both sides of this story so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals and &#8216;acceptable&#8217; bigotry</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/liberals-and-acceptable-bigotry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/liberals-and-acceptable-bigotry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last visit from a Pope to the UK before the most recent one was back in 1982 &#8211; I&#8217;m old enough to remember that one.  I was just finishing university at the time, and I remember doing some revision while the visit was on TV in the background. But it was not a state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I WON&#8217;T be re-joining the Labour Party</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/07/why-i-wont-be-re-joining-the-labour-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the period since the General Election here in the UK I&#8217;ve seen a fair number of blog posts and Facebook notes entitled &#8216;Why I&#8217;m rejoining the Labour Party&#8217;  &#8211; typically by folks who were members of the Labour Party at some point in the past decade and who left when Blair and Brown didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>70 Years of get out clauses&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/70-years-of-get-out-clauses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 08:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early today Israeli Defence Forces attacked a convoy of ships carrying aid that were heading for Gaza.  The details are sketchy; the IDF allegedly opened fire on the ships, wounding volunteers and damaging the vessels, and then boarded at least one ship.  The IDF claim that they were attacked by people on the ships with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8216;ethics&#8217; is a county in the south of England</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/when-ethics-is-a-county-in-the-south-of-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 23:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old joke about politics &#8211; politicians are people who think that: Ethics is a county in the south of England Morals are paintings on plaster Scruples is the Russian currency Unfortunately it seems that this joke is rapidly becoming a reality &#8211; within 48 hours we&#8217;ve had two Chief Secretaries to the Treasury [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m fucking furious with David Laws&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/why-im-fucking-furious-with-david-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/why-im-fucking-furious-with-david-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 21:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little history. One of the reasons why there has been radical political change in the UK in the last year is that the British people have finally started getting truly fed up with MPs on the &#8216;gravy train&#8217; who seem to prosper whilst the rest of the country goes down the plughole.  Until 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demonising Tories&#8230;or anyone&#8230;is so last century&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/demonising-tories-or-anyone-is-so-last-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 08:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the smoke of battle (and confusion) of General Election 2010 has cleared and we have a Coalition Government that hasn&#8217;t yet been proven to be the spawn of Beelzebub, can I make a suggestion that demonising anyone in politics &#8211; even Tories &#8211; is not a good move? Twenty five years ago, during [...]]]></description>
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