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		<title>The Internet Will Eat It&#8217;s Bastard Lovechildren</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have my finger so firmly on the pulse of modern life that I will be tweeting it&#8217;s demise ironically before the first carrier pigeon is devoured. Because of my inherent wisdom and up-to-dateness I was already aware that the &#8220;Girl quits her job using photos and a DryErase board&#8221; story was a fake before <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=34'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty &#8211; It&#8217;s all relative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Labour&#8217;s Frank Field is to turn our coalition government all rainbowy when he heads up a Poverty Commission. Now I&#8217;ve no idea what powers he will have, what the Commission&#8217;s remit will be and how they&#8217;ll approach the issue, but what is clear to me is this: tackling poverty is not simply <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=27'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The People Have Spoken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something that stood out for me from all the recent Election coverage (quite apart from the fascinating 24 hr footage of people waiting for things to happen) was the frequent mention of either the &#8220;voice of the electorate&#8221; or &#8220;listening to the voice of the people&#8221;. This came frequently from journalists and from the enormous <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=24'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tighter regulation or stating the bleedin’ obvious?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Services Authority have today leapt into action and put together some stringent measures to ensure the security of the proverbial barn door now that the frolicsome pony of the UK’s economy has successfully bolted, eaten lots of sugar lumps, and subsequently been mown down by a truck.
Among their hard-nosed, profound changes to our <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=20'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Elf &amp; Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Clarkson is a hero of mine. There are those of us in this wonderful land we call Great Britain that would like to see that lanky, tousle-headed chap take the keys to Number 10 Downing Street, and I’ll tell you why. He’s a man who truly believes in, and defends, that basic right of <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=19'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth Of Impartiality (Part Two)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outside of this particular issue, what is the value of airing both sides of a story? This quest for impartiality seems to be central to much journalism these days, albeit often very insincere. There are inherent problems with reporting “both sides”, especially when one side is wrong. There are circumstances when one side is wrong, <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=18'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth Of Impartiality (Part One)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC’s been coming in for a lot of stick lately. It seems the place is unable to stagger from one week to the next without some section of society launching into some frenzied tirade about how bloody awful Auntie is. I don’t think it’s fair, but then again, neither is the BBC.
The BBC is <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=17'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ha ha ha&#8230; oh, wait&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a look at this &#8220;Egyptian offers daughter to Iraqi shoe-thrower&#8221;. If you can&#8217;t be bothered I&#8217;ll give you a brief summary. Some chap in Egypt, so pleased with the poor aim of journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, has offered the bruised Hush Puppy lobber his daughter in marriage. I mean what better way to express your <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=16'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It Is Important That He&#8217;s Black.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory at the US polls there have been a few annoying, but inevitable comments about Obama’s ethnicity. There are those who, when faced with the weight of popular sentiment around the globe voicing delight in the fact that the US people have finally found the courage to enact a <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=15'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>10 Other things that have happened this week.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you live in the UK, and don’t live under a rock, you’ll have been aware of the media frenzy surrounding the broadcast of an edition of the Russell Brand show. All of the major newspapers in this country have run with it on their front page at least once this week. Here are some <a href='http://www.bransbycentral.com/blog/?p=14'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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