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		<title>Churchill Sums Up the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/29/churchill-sums-up-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can see what the position is. The Government simply cannot make up their mind, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BoJo Cuts Some Rug</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/28/bojo-cuts-some-rug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/?p=1665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Parallax Brief falls into that category of males who are embarrassingly leaden and graceless on a dance floor. Ms Parallax Brief is a wonderful dancer, which would be a big positive if she didn&#8217;t love it and expect the Parallax Brief to dance with her at every opportunity. Worse, of the Parallax Brief&#8217;s drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underestimating Swing in the Marginal Seats</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/27/underestimating-swing-in-the-marginal-seats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/27/underestimating-swing-in-the-marginal-seats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2010 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginal Constituencies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/?p=1661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Parallax Brief was unwell over the weekend, but one piece of polling data particularly caught his eye, and could have a tremendous effect on the outcome of the election. The consistent gold mine that is the UK Polling Report blog has the goods:
The News of the World has a new ICM poll of marginal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banning the Burqa Would be an Affront to our Heritage</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/26/banning-the-burqa-would-be-an-affront-to-our-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/26/banning-the-burqa-would-be-an-affront-to-our-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A six month-long French Parliamentary report concluded that Muslim dress should be banned schools, hospitals, public transport and government offices.
From the Jakarta Globe:
&#8220;The wearing of the full veil is a challenge to our republic. This is unacceptable,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;We must condemn this excess.&#8221; The commission however stopped short of proposing broader legislation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Esther Rantzen In Four-Way Marginal Race?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/22/esther-rantzen-luton-south-independent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/22/esther-rantzen-luton-south-independent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luton South]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/?p=1643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his ten predictions for 2010, the Parallax Brief stuck his neck on the line and backed Esther Rantzen to become MP for Luton South. He felt that while it has been notoriously difficult for independents to win seats in modern day elections, the expenses scandal and the increasingly narrow dividing lines between the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pinnacles and the Depths of Man</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/22/the-pinnacles-and-the-depths-of-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/22/the-pinnacles-and-the-depths-of-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Rowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All-American Basketball Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Foreign Legion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Pinnacle, from the Guardian:
A soldier who joined the French Foreign Legion after he was rejected by the British army on medical grounds is in line to be received into the Légion d&#8217;honneur for his bravery. 
Alex Rowe, from Gloucestershire, was turned away by British recruiters as a teenager because he had a detached retina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Iraq on the Verge of Collapse?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/21/is-iraq-on-the-verge-of-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/21/is-iraq-on-the-verge-of-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilibi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now Britain is out of Iraq, we tend to forget that there is still a bloody, desperate effort underway by the United States and the Iraq government, as it is, to stabilise the country. Just because it seems to have quietened of late, doesn&#8217;t mean the problem has gone away.
Tom Ricks, the pulitzer prize winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Orwell</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/21/remembering-orwell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/21/remembering-orwell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/?p=1625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 60th anniversary of the death of one Eric Arthur Blair, better known to the world as George Orwell. He was an Eton old boy, Imperial policemen in Burma, a socialist, an advocate for the poor, a soldier in the Spanish Civil War &#8212; during which he was shot in the neck by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post for British Heroes</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/20/post-for-british-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/20/post-for-british-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/?p=1619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, the Parallax Brief signed an online petition to protest at the closure of British Forces Post Office facilities in mainland Europe. The service provides service personnel stationed in Europe with the same postal rates as residents of the mainland UK. The petition stated that &#8220;Withdrawal of this long established tradition will further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Industry Sinks to New Lows</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/20/fashion-industry-sinks-to-new-lows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkpolitics.co.uk/blog/2010/01/20/fashion-industry-sinks-to-new-lows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Parallax Brief</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Viviene Westwood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The fashion industry really was a soft target for Sasha Baron-Cohen&#8217;s Bruno and Ben Stiller&#8217;s Zoolander, but it still deserved the skewering. Yet, blithely unaffected, the industry carries on in its colossally self important, fatuous ways like a dim banker in a wine bar who doesn&#8217;t realise the joke&#8217;s on him.
And nothing combines pretentiousness and [...]]]></description>
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