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		<title>Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 21:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Men who think that they're right.” - It's a good phrase. Yes, it's applicable to Hitler but, more than that, it's applicable to the Hobsbawnes of this world. It's applicable to the English Defence League shouting abuse at immigrants and it's applicable to the ignorant left wing zealot screaming “Fascist” at people with whom he disagrees.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=5035&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Irreverent Car Enthusiast or right wing fascist?</media:title>
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		<title>Glorious Britain</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/05/12/glorious-britian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The root cause of the British political dichotomy is probably the British class system. The toffs are indoctrinated in special schools to have unjustified self confidence. They believe that they are born to rule and hence they find ruling easy. They do not have to be competent, they just have appear confident because we, the working class, still have an ingrained and erroneous respect for toffs.

You deny it but you do! We all do. We may hate the middle class middle manager but we love the eccentric old toff. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who, General Mike Jackson in The Balkans. When British troops went into Iraq Colonel Tim Collins gave a speech and said: “...Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there...”. We loved it. We lapped it up. We British are romantics. We listen to these well educated, confident men and we sneer at the egalitarian Americans. We British are content to send our sons to die on the other side of the world as long as we have some Eton educated idiot fill our heads full of romantic nonsense. "Play up! play up! and play the game!" It is our pride and our curse.
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		<title>The Lord&#8217;s Terms &amp; Conditions</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/04/09/the-lords-terms-conditions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord, thine world is full of marvels and wonders,
And I am free to choose,
Thanks be to choice for choice is the root of all good,
Glory be to Madison Avenue for it exalts thy wonders,
Which I may own through my own labour,
Though I am responsible for my situation just as others are responsible for theirs,
I vow to research my purchases thoroughly on comparison web sites prior to purchase,
And repay my debts,
As others debts are repaid to me with interest,
Thanks be to copyright and patent,
For they enable innovation,
And innovation creates yet more products,
Which I must strive to buy,
Blessed are the payment companies for they enable e-comerse,
Blessed is globalisation as it empowers comparative advantage,
Forgive us our debts,
After due bankruptcy procedures,
And sell us this day our daily bread,
Deliver our goods next day,
For our is the kingdom,
The power and the glory
For ever and ever
Amen<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4861&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>overcrowded Britain</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/11/30/the-uk-is-overcrowded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure that it’s true that adding 10% more workers to London and letting them live like factory hens would make London’s corporations more profitable. Londoners may even acquire more tablet computers and smart phones. Yet our lives would be worse! Already the definition of a kitchen in a flat in Hackney is a line of cupboards down the side of the living room. Just how many times can they divide up these beautiful old houses into smaller and smaller boxes?

The mistake that these economists make is to become totally business centric. Their analysis stops at the profits of business and they fail to follow the process through to ensure that it benefits the population as a whole.

It is notable that the venerable economists who wrote the letter to Mr. Osbourne uttered not a squeak about the corporate profits which are being filched away overseas to avoid paying tax as was reported in the same edition of the FT. Surely that too is “deeply damaging to the competitiveness of our science and research sectors and the wider economy”.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4533&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PEACEFUL FEMALE PROTESTORS PENNED IN THE STREET AND MACED in New York</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/09/25/peaceful-female-protestors-penned-in-the-street-and-maced-in-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fallacy 1: "If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4194&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this any way to manage your pension money</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/09/22/is-this-any-way-to-manage-your-pension-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking around The City one has to be impressed by the fantastic granite and glass buildings with vast marble entrance halls. One has to be impressed by the frenetic pace of trading activity. By the vigour and determination of the traders but one also has to ask: Is this any way to invest the funds you are saving for retirement?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4183&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>flying fish and the inefficiency of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/27/flying-fish-and-the-inefficiency-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work with a guy from Pakistan. He observes the way we in England spend enormous amounts of time weighing up the pros and cons of every purchase. (Should I buy the Prius because it's green or the Avensis because it's got a big boot?) He is amused at this for, as he says, these things are not important. And of course he's right. A car is a car. Despite what the guy from the finance company says and despite what the advertising industry would have us believe differing models of cars will really not make a difference to our lives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3563&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The UK in the red</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/09/is-this-the-start-of-our-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalisation is all very well while the foreign money is pouring in and funding industry and jobs but once these foreign owners have their feet under the table they often find that it is more efficient to centralise production and transfer the industry abroad. This would be fair enough were it possible for British companies to buy up industry in China, Germany or Japan in the same way but other countries are not as open as the UK.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2657&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warsaw 2010</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/05/17/warsaw-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 17:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked the mixture of the old and the new. The modern trams contrasting with those from the old soviet era; though noisy and drafty they have charm from having been designed before the obsession with efficiency ironed out every crease of character. I was reminded of the old open backed Route Master buses in London and how they rattled and shook.

Warsaw appears to have embraced capitalism and commercialism for it’s promise of a better future. It seems a city with a destination firmly in mind. Though not yet as rampantly commercialised as London, in some ways it is more advanced with taxis having TV screens in the headrest to beam advertising at the helpless passenger.

Unlike London, Warsaw has not yet choked on the obsession with materialism and the false individualism of choice.

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		<title>Kmal Shaikh dies so that Wen Jinbao can save face &#8211; the fruits of engagement</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/12/30/kmal-shaikh-dies-so-that-wen-jinbao-can-save-face-the-fruit-of-engagement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our leaders claim that “engagement” with an authoritarian regime will raise their standard of democracy and human rights but the truth is that the Chinese regime has not interest or need to improve human rights and rather than their standards rising we are being forced to lower ours.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=1899&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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