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		<title>Happy New Year 2012!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phone hacking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, all! It really has been a while. But it&#8217;s great to be back here, committing the proverbial pen to paper and sharing my thoughts with you. 2011 is well and truly gone, and I&#8217;m struggling to get used to referring to 2012 as &#8216;this year&#8217; and not &#8216;next year&#8217;. As I&#8217;m sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=363&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to Wills and Kate!</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/congratulations-to-wills-and-kate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kate Middleton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postaweek2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince William]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Wedding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Along with an estimated 2 billion people worldwide, I watched the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton earlier this morning. From everything one reads and hears they are both really lovely people, and make such a wonderful couple. Here is wishing them the very best for the future, and praying that they have a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=355&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Economic Growth and Sitting on the Fence</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/on-economic-growth-and-sitting-on-the-fence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postaweek2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me when there is yet another rant in the media about a business venture, or the pay packet of someone or the other. It&#8217;s funny; we all want the comfort that financial prosperity brings, but seem to deny the reality of what it involves. That means aspiration, sacrifice, hard work and then, inevitably, reward. As a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=350&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Government&#8217;s U-Turns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Spelman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postaweek2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been mulling over an idea for a piece about changes which the government has made to some of its policies. I hadn&#8217;t quite got to the point of putting pen to paper, when it was announced that controversial plans to sell off hundreds of thousands of hectares of woodlands were to be scrapped. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=348&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Big Society</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/on-the-big-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postaweek2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the link to a piece I wrote for the political blog Platform 10: http://www.platform10.org/2011/02/big-society-means/ They are having a Big Society week, and my contribution to the debate on the concept was featured on the site today. Filed under: Social Commentary<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=344&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Nairobi with Teach Africa</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/in-nairobi-with-teach-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/in-nairobi-with-teach-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teach Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing, I promise! On paper at least. I was in Kenya for a week and just didn&#8217;t get a chance to upload anything. Anyhoo, let me tell you a bit about my trip. Since 2008 my company has supported a charity called Teach Africa, which facilitates further education for primary school children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=328&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHS reforms &#8211; an alternative view?</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/nhs-reforms-an-alternative-view/</link>
		<comments>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/nhs-reforms-an-alternative-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Lansley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platform 10]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I am a believer in the principles of a free market economy, there are some sectors which I do not think should be left in the throes of the free market. Education is one example, which is why I don&#8217;t support the recent rise in university tuition fees. Access to education is one of the major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=319&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Post a Week 2011 Challenge</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/my-post-a-week-2011-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/my-post-a-week-2011-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[http://dailypost.wordpress.com/]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on that comment at the end of my last post to do with writing more often, I&#8217;m sure it didn&#8217;t escape your notice that 2010 was my least prolific year on record! I am hoping to remedy that, and now the good people here at WordPress have a great initiative going on to encourage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=315&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The gym and New Year resolutions</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/the-gym-and-new-year-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being away from the gym for a couple of weeks after Christmas, it was hilarious to be back in my spinning class on the first working day of the year&#8230; &#8230;and trust me, not just because I knew the pain afterwards would be really something (as it turns out, two days later my quads felt like someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=308&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Newspapers and Paywalls</title>
		<link>http://scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/of-newspapers-and-paywalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times is my favourite newspaper&#8230;by an absolute mile and a half. I used to read all my daily news on the paper&#8217;s website, and would then delve into the columns..from India Knight to William Rees-Mogg, Caitlin Moran to Ann Treneman. The hard-hitting political coverage to the arts reviews - I loved them all&#8230;then Rupert Murdoch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scribblingsofawriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=837356&amp;post=301&amp;subd=scribblingsofawriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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