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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>The ConDem’s greatest mistake so far.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-condem%e2%80%99s-greatest-mistake-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-condem%e2%80%99s-greatest-mistake-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew P Withers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antonio gramsci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bastion of fabianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was not to cull the BBC on day two of the new government. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance said as much in a speech a few years ago: “Have no doubt that we are engaged in a cultural battle for the soul of Britain. Failure to defeat the ‘last bastion of  Fabianism’ will lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not pass &#8220;begin&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/do-not-pass-begin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/do-not-pass-begin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thaddeus J. Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I see the politics of prison are back in the news again. As a fairly strict libertarian, I am faced with the apparent conundrum of having to support some agency, whether it be the state or some other agency depriving someone of their liberty. But the reality of it is that there is no conundrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organised Chaos.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/organised-chaos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/organised-chaos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 13:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chief executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david cowan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections in the united kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local authorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[returning officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uk election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter registration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened on the way to the blog this morning. There I was, pondering the media reports of our shambles of an election,  wondering where to start investigating how it should have been run, when I tripped over the very man who could tell me. No really. An acknowledged expert on these matters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the people of Cambridge.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/to-the-people-of-cambridge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/to-the-people-of-cambridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 09:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cambridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cambridgeshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mavericks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oliver cromwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert louis stevenson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=8721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. Robert Louis Stevenson The last time a maverick thundered across the Cambridgeshire fens and requested the support of the good burgers of this city was in 1640. He was an outsider too. Oliver Cromwell. The people of Cambridge were brave enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Africa.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/out-of-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/out-of-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african national congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afrikaner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic minority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terre blanche]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=8253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) proudly calls itself ‘South Africa’s Leading Research and Policy Organisation’, so it is a little surprising that they ‘desisted from issuing a formal statement in the immediate aftermath of the killing of Terre Blanche’. They should have been in an excellent position to comment spontaneously on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the dots&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/madeleine-mccann/joining-the-dots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/madeleine-mccann/joining-the-dots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Madeleine McCann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthony bennett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disappearance of madeleine mccann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helene davies-green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael barrymore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert kilroy-silk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rothley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united kingdom independence party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veritas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good Lord – there are some interesting candidates standing for election in the Cambridge area alongside Old Holborn. One who particularly raised my eyebrows is Helene Davies-Green who is standing for UKIP in South Cambridgeshire. Possibly, no probably, no, emphatically, not a name that would be instantly familiar to you – unless you had taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prospective Labour Candidate branded unacceptable for speaking the truth…..</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/prospective-labour-candidate-branded-unacceptable-for-speaking-the-truth%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/prospective-labour-candidate-branded-unacceptable-for-speaking-the-truth%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iain Gray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bercow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nobel peace prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scottish labour party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuart maclennan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Maclennan, Labour&#8217;s ex-candidate for Moray branded House of Commons speaker John Bercow a &#8220;t**&#8221;, and “an opportunist little t***&#8221; and another claimed the Tory is &#8220;detested&#8221;. He also attacked the Lib Dem leader, saying Nick Clegg can &#8220;f*** right off if he thinks he&#8217;s in the same league as Brown and Cameron&#8221; in ‘Tweets’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casting &#8216;Total Politics&#8217; into the Archipelago.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/casting-total-politics-into-the-archipelago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/casting-total-politics-into-the-archipelago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boycott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joseph stalin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Griffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political magazine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=7392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I confess to a currently fashionable perversion &#8211; I do occasionally sneak a late night look at &#8216;stat porn&#8217;, the web record of how many people are reading your blog, and where they come from. I try to restrict myself to two minutes once a week, I am scared of becoming addicted, and the last [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Women in Parliament.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-women-in-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-women-in-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bessie Braddock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Fawkes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House of Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[November 5th]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=4866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when Noah was still drawing up the blueprint for his Ark, long before I was born, my Aunt stood against a certain Bessie Braddock as Conservative candidate for St Anne&#8217;s Ward in Liverpool. Aunty vanished without trace of course, apart from one vote found lying under the counting officer&#8217;s table, probably, though not certainly, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>McMysogeny and Gynophobic Politics.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/mcmysogeny-and-gynophobic-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/mcmysogeny-and-gynophobic-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damian McBride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Bown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gynophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harriet Harman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Mandelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mysogeny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who can forget the colourful outburst by Sir Richard Mottram, the permanent secretary at the Department of Transport, in response to news that special adviser Jo Moore had suggested 9/11 was a good day to bury bad news. He said: &#8220;We&#8217;re all fucked. I&#8217;m fucked. You&#8217;re fucked. The whole department&#8217;s fucked. It&#8217;s the biggest cock-up [...]]]></description>
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