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	<title>The Centrist</title>
	<link>http://www.the-centrist.com</link>
	<description>Postcards from the political centre</description>
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		<title>The Human Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, the Cenrist is sometimes accused of being unfair to Gordon Brown. True, I&#8217;ve said some pretty harsh things about him here in the past. I&#8217;ve even called him childish names and made up songs about him.
But I don&#8217;t think anybody could have failed to be moved by the Prime Minister&#8217;s appearance on Piers Morgan&#8217;s chat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=216</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Why are they picking on me?&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, much too late Sir Thomas Legg&#8217;s report into MPs&#8217; expenses is released, and it&#8217;s far gentler than it would have been had it been written by the average tax payer.
Still, it points out that the nation&#8217;s lawmakers abused the system, wrote the rules to benefit themselves, intimidated the civil servants they hired to run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=195</link>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centrist is multi-talented, and so he has written a Christmas song for all his dedicated readers.
It&#8217;s a little Christmas card (or Hannukah note) to all of you.
It&#8217;s sung to the obvious tune.
Walking in a Labour Wonderland
In the meadow we can build a snowman
And pretend that he is Gordon Brown
He&#8217;ll want to raise our taxes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=189</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t get sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A trans-Atlantic cat fight is underway about just who has the worst health care system.
&#8216;Surely it&#8217;s the Canadians?&#8217; you&#8217;re no doubt thinking. But no. With handbags at 10 paces, the US Republicans have squared off against the British left and they&#8217;re batting each other with soft leather as the prescription papers fly, each claiming the other has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>The best little whorehouse in Britain</title>
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Let&#8217;s take a break from busting the government-sponsored myths about swine flu, and watch Parliament head out for its covetable 82-day summer holiday. Shall we wave a fond farewell to them as they duck into their Jags, gun the engines and roar off to (one of) their homes?
It&#8217;s almost impossible to write a post that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Serious underlying rubbish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, now seven people have died in the UK from swine flu. And seven times the mainstream media have duly repeated the government&#8217;s contention that the dead suffered from &#8217;serious underlying health problems&#8217;. The clear implication is, were it not for these serious problems, the dead wouldn&#8217;t have died.
Having heard the same thing over and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t worry: it&#8217;s all under control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love everything about the story in the Times this week about the swine flu epidemic raging so far out of control that the government has given up its outstanding work containing it.
I use the word &#8216;outstanding&#8217; because I think that&#8217;s the word they&#8217;d use. And The Centrist is nothing if not supportive.
According to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=98</link>
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		<title>They&#8217;re still stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And that message was: We're still here. We're still stupid. Fuck you.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re just not that into you, Gordon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown is stalking us.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Where to start?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There we were, happily watching our economy crumble, our housing bubble burst, and our country stumble scarily, when all of a sudden Parliament imploded...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.the-centrist.com/?p=20</link>
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