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	<title>The Sharpener</title>
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	<description>trying to make a point</description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the media&#8217;s lies that crime is rising just ignorant and stupid, or could they be something a little more sinister?
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/07/04/730/</link>
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		<title>The wrong sort of rape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jill Saward is a feminist candidate standing against David Davis in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, on the grounds that putting everyone on a DNA database would be awesome because it&#8217;d improve rape conviction rates.
Now, if the problem in getting rape convictions was that there were plenty of cases where DNA samples were taken but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/07/01/the-wrong-sort-of-rape/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are the Lib Dems bothering to oppose Labour, when the Tories are the real enemy?
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/30/728/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your personal inflation rate?
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/25/727/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the political season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On [the internet] if someone gets up with a hangover after drinking 8 pints, the blame lies with the goverment and Gordon Brown&#8221; - commenter Eatonrifle on HYS
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/23/quote-of-the-political-season/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intimidation, power, class and race
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/21/725/</link>
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		<title>Fuel foolishness and the disutility of dissing utilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of debate in left-wing-commentaryland at the moment about electricity and gas prices, &#8216;fuel poverty&#8217;, and how these relate to the profits made by energy companies.
The problem is, the debate is nonsense: UK utilities are losing out from high energy prices - and utility bills are currently far too low in any case. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/17/fuel-foolishness-and-the-disutility-of-dissing-utilities/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guide to self-loathing. &#8220;First they came for the braying toffs&#8230;&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/13/723/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news about New Zealand&#8217;s decriminalisation of prostitution - mysteriously hushed up by the mad puritans (conservative and feminist alike) who favour locking people up
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/11/722/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A superb demolition of this kind of emotivist nonsense about wonderdrugs that don&#8217;t work
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/05/721/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[London&#8217;s poor in &#8220;not trusting Etonian buffoon&#8221; shock
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/04/720/</link>
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		<title>Lies and damn lies about statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mysteriously popular Coppersblog has a piece up claiming - in line with its general tabloid nonsense agenda - that crime statistics are nonsense, that crime is rocketing, and that we&#8217;ll probably all be stabbed by the end of the week.
Reasonably disgustingly, it uses the murder of Arsema Dawit as a &#8220;OMG, evil teen stabbings&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/04/lies-and-damn-lies-about-statistics/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A no-go area challenge from Jamie and John B
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/06/03/718/</link>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s dismal electoral strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Labour have lost the Crewe and Natwich election, the Tories winning their first by-election in 26 years. Huzzah.
At last Labour seem to be getting the kind of kicking they&#8217;ve long deserved - a kicking I&#8217;m hoping might finally shake them out of the complacency that&#8217;s seen a supposedly left-wing, pro-EU government with no viable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/23/labours-dismal-electoral-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Frying pans, fires, etc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we all know the current government is hopelessly inept at PR, quite inept at sticking by its decisions, and quite fond of authoritarian intervention (whether on The Terrorists or The Smokers). So it&#8217;s nice to be reminded that, on aggregate and including their oh-so-cuddly leader, the Conservatives still hate women and hate gays.
Dunno about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/05/21/frying-pans-fires-etc/</link>
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