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		<title>Nicolas Sarkozy &#8211; Just grow up and act your height</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rumours are abound in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s aides are choosing people shorter than his 5&#8242;5&#8243; stature to stand behind him on photoshoots and make him look taller.
As Putin tried in vain to look young and virile in photoshoots, Sarkozy has tried in vain to look taller. Both have ended up jusy looking silly.
Both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/09/08/nicolas-sarkozy-just-grow-up-and-act-your-height/</link>
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		<title>Tories &#8211; We will cut our wages because we can afford it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a completely transparent attempt to seize the &#8216;moral highground&#8217; David Cameron has declared that Tory ministers will cut their own wages by 5% if they form the next government.
This will save the taxpayer between £4,000 and £6,000 a year per minister.
Sounds all very laudable unless  like Mr. Hague you are taking home the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/09/08/tories-we-will-cut-our-wages-because-we-can-afford-it/</link>
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		<title>Sky Live Debate &#8211; Bad News for Brown?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The announcement by Sky News that they are planning a General Election leaders debate has left me salivating.
Hats off to the Murdoch machine for going it alone and announcing an &#8220;empty chair&#8221; policy if a party leader fails to turn up.
It is nice to see that Cameron and Clegg have backed this from the start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/09/03/sky-live-debate-bad-news-for-brown/</link>
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		<title>US and UK right to be appalled by al-Megrahi welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I think it was still right for al-Megrahi to released on compassionate grounds and sent home to die, the scenes of &#8216;jubilation&#8217; on landing in Libya were wholly inappropriate.
Even if you think he is innocent of the bombing of Flight 103 the scenes of celebration, albeit limited to a couple of hundred people at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/08/21/us-and-uk-right-to-be-appalled-by-al-megrahi-welcome/</link>
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		<title>Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi release &#8211; probably the right thing to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The early release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds has finally been announced after days of trailing in the media.

As with the release of Train Robber Ronnie Biggs earlier this month on compassionate grounds, I have found myself morally torn as to whether this is the 'right' thing to do]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/08/20/abdelbaset-ali-al-megrahi-release-probably-the-right-thing-to-do/</link>
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		<title>Is swine flu advice becoming a pigs ear?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent days the Government, the Royal College of Midwives, National Childbirth Trust and the Department of Health have got themselves in a right old muddle over their swineflu advice for pregnant women.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/07/20/is-swine-flu-advice-becoming-a-pigs-ear/</link>
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		<title>Central Street, Hebden Bridge &#8211; Are we nearly there yet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can we do it? - YES, WE CAN]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/06/26/central-street-hebden-bridge-are-we-nearly-there-yet/</link>
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		<title>Cowley Street &#8211; Give this person a job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the future of party political broadcasts.
Borrowed footage and borrowed music on YouTube.

Courtesy of www.liberal-vision.org
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		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/06/26/cowley-street-give-this-person-a-job/</link>
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		<title>Labour MP using expenses for leaflet design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tories are famous in Calderdale for using Ashcroft monies (£25,000 in 2007) for political campaigning but at least it isn't taxpayer's money.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/06/23/labour-mp-using-expenses-for-leaflet-design/</link>
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		<title>Why is our MP paying the Labour council leader £5000 a year?</title>
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Having a little rumage through my Labour MP, Chris McCafferty's redacted expenses forms and came across something quite interesting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbm.com/2009/06/19/why-is-our-mp-paying-the-labour-council-leader-5000-a-year/</link>
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