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	<description>Look Upon My Works Ye Mighty and Despair</description>
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		<title>Stood on the Precipice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pointless Futurology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we will fall off? Maybe tomorrow. Events are moving so fast now that my previous blog post &#8211; drafted on Monday night but not published &#8217;til just now &#8211; is already outdated. People have started pulling their cash out &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/stood-on-the-precipice.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Acropolis Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, I mused on the prospect of a nationalist strongman arising in Greece in response to the EU&#8217;s apparent willingness to override national sentiment and the democratic process in Greece. While no Nostradamus, I point you to the &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/acropolis-now.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Less, not more: Government Part 2.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Crap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Part 1 of what I grandly calling a &#8220;series&#8221;, I looked at how Government as it is currently run starts from a principle that necessarily reduces personal liberty. I used the silly example of bread to demonstrate how Governments &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/less-not-more-government-part-2.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on the NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Crap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having spent a bit of time up close and personal with the NHS recently, it&#8217;s given me some time to reflect on its nature. Firstly, most people&#8217;s perceptions of it are I suspect coloured by their personal experience. Anecdote looms &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/some-thoughts-on-the-nhs.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Less, not more: Government Part 1.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tale is told &#8211; probably apocryphal &#8211; of the Russian ambassador&#8217;s first trip to London. On visiting a shop, he was stunned by the variety of produce on display. Turning to his British host he asked plaintively: &#8220;but who &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/less-not-more-government-part-1.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We trading something for nothing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pointless Futurology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my Kindle bit the dust. I&#8217;d been getting quite into the Kindle thing &#8211; reading it in the bath&#8230; downloading books on an ad-hoc basis&#8230; using it to browse the web. There is a remorseless logic to the digitisation &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/we-trading-something-for-nothing.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>EXCLUSIVE! The Ken Bates Algorithm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Leeds have sold Johnny Howson. Christ. After some research carried out by members of LULZSEC, I can reveal that the club is run by a simple algorithm. $batesmotelcomplete = false; $batesmotelcost = "4500000"; $fanhappiness = 100; $players = array("howson","becchio","kisnorbo","rachubka","lonergan","taylor,"cairns","connolly","bruce","O'Brien","Lees","Bromb &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/exclusive-the-ken-bates-algorithm.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It was 15 years ago today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musicians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well,  not quite to the day, but I finally got around to dusting off some old music from back in the day. It was the mid-90s and in that long-forgotten era I still had hair, my BMI was within normally &#8230; <a href="http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk/it-was-15-years-ago-today.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>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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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