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		<title>Ich bin ein Osbaldwicker (NIMBIs are good)</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/03/27/nimbis-are-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[England is too crowded and there is pressure for more housing and I guess it must be built but if we continue like this we will all be living in shoe boxes. Already I can see that my parents lived in a smaller home than my grand parents and I live in a smaller home than my parents.

Just a few more houses, just a few more. Just one more terminal at Heathrow Airport. Then, once it is built, just on more runway at Heathrow Airport. The argument for the Heathrow Airport is that England must maintain it's position as a global hub but for who's benefit? If our environment is gradually eroded by development then in who's benefit is this development?  Just when are we going to stop hankering after more and more stuff and start valuing the stuff we have?

Thus far an no further! Ich bin ein Osbaldwicker and all that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4825&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contrived argument over kissing and jumpers</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/11/17/contrived-argument-over-kissing-and-jumpers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Radio 4 has a series of programs recently in what it terms its Brain Season. One example of psychological research is something known as anchoring. The idea is that you show a couple of numbers to experimental subjects and then ask them a question such as “what percentage of countries in the UN come from Africa?”. It terms out that their answers will be significantly weighed toward the numbers shown.

Interesting stuff. But who do you think is using this? Are you using it in your every day life? Are your mates at the gym or down the pub using it? No, the people who use this stuff are marketeers working for large multinationals who are trying to lure you into buying more and more useless stuff.  They have even developed an Orwellian term for it: Behavioural Economics. This is what's behind BP changing it's corporate colours to green or Shell changing the name of their petrol to "FuelSave Regular Unleaded". While they talk green they act mean.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4442&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tories given easy ride at conference</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/05/tories-given-easy-ride-at-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also this week we had the supposed “clash” between Secretary of State for Justice Kenneth Clarke and the Home Secretary Theresa May. Theresa pointed out that a court ruling relating to immigration referenced the defendants ownership of a cat and Clarke expressed scepticism that this was a decisive factor. Was this really the biggest news so far at the Conservative conference? If it was then the big news should really have been that there was nothing happening at the conference.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4226&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OP Hotel &amp; Trattorias</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/02/op-hotel-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First impressions of the OP Hotel on Viale Oceano Pacifico in Rome were good. Clean open entrance. Polite efficient reception staff. The bathroom was clean and modern with a bidet, a stylish square wash basin, fantastically large shower head and tiny soap bars in tiny plastic wrappers which are all but impossible to remove without a bit of stabbing from the nearest metal object which, in this case, was my front door key.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4205&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Follow Leaders</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/09/11/dont-follow-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long admired Shami Chakrabati. Mainly because of her determined, intelligent and reasoned support for human rights but also because she&#8217;s short, dark and gorgeous. So when I heard her speak on Any Questions on Friday I felt my opinions were being well represented. Even on the subject of the NHS, where she admitted was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4170&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC reporting the bleeding obvious</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/03/11/bbc-resort-to-reporting-the-bleeding-obvious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC article serves only to ridicule the author of the report for poor grammar and spelling and for having the temerity to include some mild levity in the text. The article sneers at misspelling and phrases such as "cunning plan”, “embussed" as well as vague witticisms such as the sentence "Ideally we want to be able to use our carriers (vans) again in the future".

The United Kingdom has submerged itself in corporate newspeak over the past decade with management consultants charging over the odds to write documents which are perfect when judged for spelling, grammar, syntax, formatting, colour coding and branding but which say nothing and serve no purpose.

Well done BBC, I fully expect that the author of this plan will be reprimanded and stopped from writing documents “going forward”. Instead we can expect that, at great expense, the Met will employ some twit in a suit to write a plan full of perfect platitudes and the sum total of human happiness will have been knocked down a couple of notches.

It is OK to make spelling 
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		<title>Outcasts &#8211; Stop shouting and have a cup of tea?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/07/outcasts-shouty-man-gets-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainly the action takes place outside amongst some fantastic scenery though there is the usual control centre replete with numerous computer screens and silly slidey doors.
The program ended with the deserved death of shouty man on the planet’s surface and the ship breaking up as it re-enters the planet’s atmosphere. Amongst the final shots was a one of shouty man in some kind of escape capsule. Is this a flashback or did this obstruction to an intelligent series survive?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3639&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Arab world &#8211; Everyone&#8217;s a winner</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/02/time-to-end-support-for-dictators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a middle east of modern democratic countries right on the border of the largest trading block in the world. I am talking of the European Union. While the world obsesses over whether China will supplant America as the largest economy in the world they overlook the fact that the EU has an economy larger than both.

With the Arab world modernising the trade would take off and this would be great news for Arabs and Europeans. There was speculation in The Economist in 2009 of solar powered electricity generation in the Sahara with the electricity transported to Europe across the Mediterranean.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3606&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choose debt?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/14/choose-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard that Argentina defaulted on its debt in 2002 yet my recollection is that The Economist has had some good things to say about its economy. Iceland also hit troubled times and let its investors face write offs yet an Economist article on Ireland cagily suggested that Ireland could learn a thing or two from the way Iceland handled its crisis.

It seems that all the “experts” are suggesting that the debts be written off. Yes, the lenders (read your pension funds and rich bastards) will lose out in the short term but perhaps this is no worse than dragging the problem out for years and arriving at the same conclusion years later.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3533&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks have opened a Pandora’s box of hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/11/wikileaks-have-opened-a-pandora%e2%80%99s-box-of-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All bureaucracies, such as governments, have a tendency toward secrecy. Rather than selecting information to be kept secret they prefer blanket regulations which keeps everything secret. Following pressure to release information the British Government responded with the Freedom Of Information Act 2000 which allows that some information can be released dependant on a public interest test. This is the wrong way around.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3522&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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