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	<title>Anna Raccoon &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>A jaundiced view of the mainstream media.</description>
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		<title>Total Bollards.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/total-bollards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/total-bollards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the day that the news agenda will be dominated by the Experian report commissioned by the BBC showing that the North of England will be hardest hit by the spending cuts – and we are invited to conjure up an image of unburied bodies, babies starving in the gutter, and frail old people freezing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Voters Switch from Left to Right &#8211; and Back Again.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/voters-switch-from-left-to-right-and-back-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/voters-switch-from-left-to-right-and-back-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<title>Media Barons Have No Predators?</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/media-barons-have-no-predators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/media-barons-have-no-predators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes they do Tom &#8211; it&#8217;s called the Blogosphere&#8230;&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Illusions of Grandeur.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/illusions-of-grandeur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/illusions-of-grandeur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I began to despair back in the dog days of August. Could there ever be enjoyment found in writing of politics again? Was it just a long grind ahead of us reporting that the Coalition was doing nothing very much and Labour were consumed by inner hatred? Salivation (sic) is ahead of me – for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>MP in Rugby Player&#8217;s Dressing Room Shock.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/mp-in-rugby-players-dressing-room-shock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/mp-in-rugby-players-dressing-room-shock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An easy mistake to make. Burly half naked Rugby players milled around the dressing room in confusion. The Newton Abbot team manager did his best to instil order. One player appeared to be missing. The –ahem! – impressive physique of Tory MP Ms Anne-Marie Morris hove into view. &#8220;A woman came up to me and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>French with tears&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/french-with-tears/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/french-with-tears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emily Barr is part of the brave new world of journalism. Not for her the 60s ‘use your initiative’, tear the world map out of the Shorter  Oxford English Dictionary, beg, borrow and steal, hitch lifts across communist Russia, sleeping in communal tents with 23 Latvian lorry drivers, flog your Levi’s in Istanbul,  and swap [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gareth Darbyshire Revisited.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/gareth-darbyshire-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/gareth-darbyshire-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Fellstrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A TEENAGE magistrate who bought a £7m company then lived the high life while it went bust within months is now behind an attempt to buy a nightclub, I can reveal. Despite facing a personal bankruptcy petition and the fact that his multi-million pound company is now in liquidation, Gareth Darbyshire is attempting to move [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Erewash eyewash.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/erewash-eyewash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/erewash-eyewash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti tobacco movement in nazi germany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ms Raccoon is still swishing her tail angrily in the direction of Sandwell Council, and pawing the ground impatiently at the sheer length of time it is taking to transfer Sheila Martin’s ‘file’ from the warden’s department of Sandwell Council to the Legal Services Department in the same building &#8211; who are responsible for deciding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The state will decide how much money you get!</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-state-will-decide-how-much-money-you-get/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-state-will-decide-how-much-money-you-get/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thaddeus J. Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since there has been a story in the press that left me with my jaw so far down that it hurt. But today, I believe, we are firmly back in the deranged world of government gone completely insane: HM Revenue and Customs could take direct control of every worker’s monthly pay [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Waspish Sensibilities.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/waspish-sensibilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/waspish-sensibilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Venom courses through the veins and arteries of the main stream media today, venom, fear and loathing, of the Blogosphere. Ironically, most of the poison laden words appear in the on-line versions as well as the dead tree press – they may despise the Blogosphere, but they are too frightened of being left behind to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Chief Sky Fairy formerly known as McGod…….</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-chief-sky-fairy-formerly-known-as-mcgod%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-chief-sky-fairy-formerly-known-as-mcgod%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning McGod will arrive to perform her teaching duties at the Scottish Episcopal Church in a neat pleated skirt, high heeled shoes, and an immaculate white lace blouse. It will come as a shock to many of her ‘children’ who had been used to referring to him/her as ‘Father, Son and Holy Ghost’. Ms [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The wheels on the bus go round and round &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-wheels-on-the-bus-go-round-and-round/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-wheels-on-the-bus-go-round-and-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thaddeus J. Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes folks, that wondrous time of year is here again, with Bob Crow and his merry men once again set to wreak havoc in one of the world&#8217;s largest cities by resorting to that old canard of &#8220;safety&#8221;. Apparently, these cuts will lead to people dying screaming in a massive fireball or something. The Tory [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liddle Dick Syndrome.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/liddle-dick-syndrome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/liddle-dick-syndrome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a crowded field of insecure journalists who denigrate bloggers whilst avidly devouring every word we write – and frequently repeating them unattributed – Rod Liddle stands head and shoulders above every last man, woman and trained monkey employed to fill the space between the lucrative advertisements for walk in baths, incontinence pads, and slyly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/saturday-evening-posts-worth-reading-32/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/saturday-evening-posts-worth-reading-32/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a little Prick edition. Longrider on Liberal Guilt. Leg-Iron on tormenting children. Al-Jahom on another Blair. Andy McDonel on not being allowed to fly the &#8216;don&#8217;t tread on me&#8217; flag. More HERE. Dizzy - meanwhile in the real world&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cyclical Smoke Rings.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/cyclical-smoke-rings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/cyclical-smoke-rings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading a long out-of-print (1914) book by George Apperson on the history of smoking. I had not appreciated before how cyclical was the promotion and suppression of smoking. Apperson’s book is not the ‘History of Tobacco’ which has been frequently visited by authors, but the history of the fluctuations of fashion in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Media whoring</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/media-whoring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/media-whoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thaddeus J. Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I don&#8217;t make a &#8220;twat&#8221; of myself, I am partial to following the ebb and flow of opinion as it is delivered on twitter. And it seems to me that an old story has been re-awakened and is causing the Tories a great deal of discomfort: that of the News of the World&#8217;s hacking [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where are we going?</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/where-are-we-going/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/where-are-we-going/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew P Withers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a very interesting lunch today, which gave me the opportunity to test out a few theories as to where the hell is this Country going to. Since the May election we have seen the end of the Party that re-introduced a stasi state. My problem is all I see is Con Dem ‘managing’ [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>False Memoirs Syndrome.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/false-memoirs-syndrome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/false-memoirs-syndrome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daedalus X Parrot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=11001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive deal with Daedalus Parrot Publishing Inc., the long awaited memoirs of Anthony Blair, &#8220;Why I Was Right&#8221;, will be serialised in this column over the next few minutes. In this first instalment, Anthony describes how right he was. Thank You Before we proceed, some thanks are in order. I know, wise reader, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Poor Polly &#8211; betrayed again!</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/poor-polly-betrayed-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/poor-polly-betrayed-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=10996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a one-eyed yellow Scotsman of a dour and sullen hue There’s a stench of pious bullshit all around There’s a broken-heated woman dreams of socialism true And the yellow Scot forever lets her down He was known as Red McBroon, and he made the Party swoon Though his cowardice had long begun to smell [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wikio General Blog Ranking Preview</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/wikio-general-blog-ranking-preview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/wikio-general-blog-ranking-preview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=10990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikio.co.uk &#8211; General Ranking Preview – September 2010 1 Iain Dale&#8217;s Diary 2 Liberal Conspiracy 3 Cute Card Thursday 4 Papertake Weekly Challenge 5 Guy Fawkes&#8217; blog 6 A Spoon Full of Sugar 7 allsorts challenge blog 8 Liberal Democrat Voice 9 Left Foot Forward 10 Cupcake Craft Challenges 11 Charisma Cardz 12 Stamping Ground [...]]]></description>
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