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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/16/712/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BNP in &#8216;not fond of democracy&#8217; shock
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		<title>Long may the Punch and Judy show continue</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/15/long-may-the-punch-and-judy-show-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/15/long-may-the-punch-and-judy-show-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the 10p tax rate fuss is resolved. Instead of a million or so people losing money equivalent to a bag of chips a week with a couple of million gaining money equivalent to half a bag of chips, the government is going to borrow enough money for an extra half a bag of chips [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/13/710/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/13/710/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stand up for horrible porn (or at least, for not locking harmless perverts up for looking at fake zombie pictures&#8230;)
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/13/709/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherie Blair in &#8216;does something useful&#8217; shock
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		<title>A resurrection, of sorts</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/13/a-resurrection-of-sorts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/13/a-resurrection-of-sorts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Management</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the hiatus: evil hackers turned the website into a Viagra advert, then we lost the database backup for a while. This is why the MSM will always remain triumphant; paid-for web monkeys will stay up all night for a week to fix this kind of thing, or risk getting their peanuts taken away.
Anyway. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sky in &#8217;still not falling&#8217; shock</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/24/sky-in-still-not-falling-shock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/24/sky-in-still-not-falling-shock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest crime figures are out [PDF]: they show a fall in recorded crime, and flat crime according to the British Crime Survey [*].
This isn&#8217;t surprising - it just highlights that the rest of the country is actually doing the same &#8216;crime probably down a bit and certainly not up&#8216; thing as London, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite what the papers say</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/18/not-quite-what-the-papers-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/18/not-quite-what-the-papers-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that crime in London fell by 6% last year? Weird, considering the hysterical paranoia in broadsheet papers and tabloid blogs alike.
Yes, I know that reported crime figures are seldom accurate, which is why people who claim things like &#8220;Rape offences have increased ELEVENFOLD&#8221; are being dishonest (this is because women now feel [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/11/704/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/11/704/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A matter of great national importance
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		<title>Tax and Attacks on the Sick</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/10/tax-and-attacks-on-the-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/10/tax-and-attacks-on-the-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To be on Incapacity Benefit you have to have been deemed unfit for work by your GP. Then, after several months on Income Support, you move on to Incapacity Benefit.
In case anyone needs reminding, your GP is a qualified doctor with your full medical history in front of them. Hard to think of anyone better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopped clocks and mullet-haired petrolheads</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/07/stopped-clocks-and-mullet-headed-petrolheads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/01/07/stopped-clocks-and-mullet-headed-petrolheads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the HMRC benefit disc loss furore, I repeatedly made an important point that most commentators overlooked: the information provided on those discs was completely useless to carry out any kind of serious fraud, theft or scam.
Jeremy Clarkson, to his credit, shared this view. Unlike me, he had the cojones to back [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/21/701/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/21/701/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An assessment of Labour&#8217;s performance on poverty measures. Better than the usual halfwitted rants&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/19/700/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/19/700/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Birchill on Tesco: actually quite good
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		<title>Opposition to immigration is inherently immoral</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/19/opposition-to-immigration-is-inherently-immoral/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/19/opposition-to-immigration-is-inherently-immoral/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears The People, or at least that subset of The People that post on acrimonious talk boards and read tabloid newspapers, are getting annoyed by immigration.
This comment from this Commentisfree thread is a typical summary, directed at the kind of woolly liberals who think that offering a home to the poor and the persecuted [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/05/698/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/05/698/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion is not oppressed by secular society (and Christina Odone is a paranoid loon)
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/05/697/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[British Muslims have exactly the same values as the rest of us. Fact.
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