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	<description>Look Upon My Works Ye Mighty and Despair</description>
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		<title>Seeing the Bigger Picture.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Romanian Government has collapsed. You don&#8217;t care, but you probably should. Europe is crumbling at the edges. Greek nationalism (remember nationalism &#8211; died and was buried with the advent of the EU? R.I.P.) is growing &#8211; evidenced by their &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/seeing-the-bigger-picture.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Naught but fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron&#8217;s much touted &#8216;veto&#8217; of the alleged &#8216;treaty&#8217;  at the EU &#8216;summit&#8217; last week is still setting the political discourse of the media alight. Variously, it has been cast as an example of heroism, treachery, genius or stupidity. And &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/naught-but-fog.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Climategate II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the climate blogs are going crazy with the release of several thousands more emails from Jones, Briffa, Mann et al (I recommend Tallbloke, Climate Resistance, Shub and Bishop Hill for the most illuminating early finds and links to the files &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/climategate-ii.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Europe in Flames?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If, as seems likely, the French and Germans get their way, Papandreou will be history soon. Who will replace him? Someone who is prepared to kowtow to the EU line and sign Greece up to decades of penury. How will &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/europe-in-flames.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A conversation with a minor celebrity about the nature of propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh from a short, but illuminating conversation with ex-comedian Emma Kennedy* on Twitter in which she fell into the classic error of mistaking tabloid journalism for propaganda. Talking to Alexei Sayle this pm, I realised one of worst tricks The &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/a-conversation-with-a-minor-celebrity-about-the-nature-of-propaganda.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shed no Tears for Murdoch. But&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch has sat like a spider at the centre of the web of British life for decades, despite being Australian by birth and American by residence and being largely antipathetic towards our institutions and culture. Much of what you &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/shed-no-tears-for-murdoch-but.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Riot On, Greeks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered why the French and the Germans are so keen to stop Greece defaulting? That&#8217;s a lot of ouch in anyone&#8217;s money. This has gone beyond &#8220;24 hours to save the Euro!&#8221; and is now about naked national interests. &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/riot-on-greeks.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Debt Default: Here Comes the Tidal Wave&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Greece is, finally, hitting the buffers. Interest rates on money loaned to the Greeks is now 30%, which basically means no-one will lend to them. The proposed &#8220;bailout&#8221; (another trifling matter of some tens of billions of Euros) is &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/greek-debt-default-here-comes-the-tidal-wave.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bring me the head of Chris Huhne.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 22:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. Let me get it right. The idea of a second Kyoto Treaty &#8211; a binding agreement about a lowering of CO2 emissions over a set time frame &#8211; is dead. France, Russia, Japan and Canada have declared that they &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/bring-me-the-head-of-chris-huhne.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m out of my lunchbox, I really am!</title>
		<link>http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/christine-blower-blows.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble when dealing with mad people is that they don&#8217;t recognise that they are actually mad. When you try to point out that bananas don&#8217;t actually run the bus time table, or that Prince Philip isn&#8217;t really living in &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/christine-blower-blows.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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