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	<description>Liberal Musings from the Calder Valley</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Student Loans - Celebrations in order</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/03/05/student-loans-celebrations-in-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven years after finishing my degree, I have finally finished paying off my student loans 1994-1997.
All I can say is thank god I went to university before Labour introduced the top-up-fees otherwise I would be still paying the little blighters off.
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		<title>Clegg has UKIP and the Tories on the run</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/02/25/clegg-has-ukip-and-the-tories-on-the-run/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/02/25/clegg-has-ukip-and-the-tories-on-the-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In picking a fight over the Lisbon Treaty and by not backing the call for a referendum on the UK&#8217;s membership of the EU, the Tories and UKIP are quite obviously running scared.
The Tory position speaks volumes on their  position on the European issue - muddled and frankly opportunist.
There were no referendums on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media need to get a sense of proportion</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/02/11/media-need-to-get-a-sense-of-proportion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Question: You are a news editor.
1. Four days ago the Archbishop of Canterbury makes an academic speech to a room full of lawyers about the theoretical incorporation of some aspects of financial and marital Sharia law into English law.
2. Hundreds of category A prisoners (including Ian Huntley) could have their convictions quashed and be freed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Get Out of Jail Free&#8221; cards could have been issued by police</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/02/10/get-out-of-jail-free-cards-could-have-been-issued-by-police/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/02/10/get-out-of-jail-free-cards-could-have-been-issued-by-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of terrorists, murderers and other dangerous and violent prisoners across the country could have their convictions quashed if claims of police bugging of privileged legal meetings prove to be true.
Senior police officers are alleged to have routinely ordered the bugging of category A prisoner&#8217;s meetings with lawyers and other visitors in prisons across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three generations of lost ID</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2008/01/31/three-generations-of-lost-id/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found out at the weekend that the government, or rather the MOD this time, has lost more personal data from my family.
This time my brother&#8217;s armed forces recruitment data was lost in a stolen laptop along with the data of 300,000 other recruits.
Amongst the more mundane pieces of personal information lost/stolen were scans of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competence is to Brown what age was for Ming</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/12/01/competence-is-to-brown-is-what-age-was-for-ming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/12/01/competence-is-to-brown-is-what-age-was-for-ming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the last month competence has become the big issue for Gordon Brown.
Northern Rock, the HMRC ID Fiasco and Dodgy Labour Donations over the last few weeks have tainted the Iron Chancellor as the Cheap Tin Premier, with little control over his party or the government.
If Brown can not shift this image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ID Fiasco - Government missing the point</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/11/22/id-fiasco-government-missing-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/11/22/id-fiasco-government-missing-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of the 18th October my entire family was put at risk of ID Fraud by the UK Government.
Government advice at this time is to change passwords and keep an eye bank accounts.
What the government is failing to warn us about is the need for vigilance of our credit records. Although my data lost by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Normal blogging service will resume soon</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/07/18/normal-blogging-service-will-resume-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/07/18/normal-blogging-service-will-resume-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[after I have finished series 3 of the West Wing.
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		<title>Tour of Duty Iraq - Halfway there</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/06/18/tour-of-duty-iraq-halfway-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/06/18/tour-of-duty-iraq-halfway-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little (27-year-old) brother Paul this weekend passed the halfway mark of his tour of duty in Iraq with the RAF.
I celebrated with a couple of pints in Elland whilst Paul celebrated with for once not being on the receiving end of insurgent rocket attacks.
Stay safe
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		<title>Victory in Halifax day</title>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2007/06/15/victory-in-halifax-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Cllr. Jennifer Pearson and Brendan Stubbs (Agent) for their trouncing of the Tories in Warley Ward of Calderdale MBC.
A storming 901 majority.
The election was postponed from May because of the sudden death of the Conservative candidate Richard Maycock.

&#160;
Results
Jennifer Pearson (Lib Dem) 1,319
John Foran (Con) 418
Jenny Carr (Ind) 360
Julie Ann Baxter (BNP) 335
Ilyas Najib [...]]]></description>
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