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		<title>Raoul Moat &#8211; Neither heroic nor callous</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/15/raol-moat-neither-hero-nor-callous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moat had obviously built up a narrative in his mind whereby his wife had left him for a police officer, that he was being prevented from seeing his children an that the police were deliberately harassing him. At the moment it is too early to say how much of this narrative is true and how much is imagined by Moat but I believe it is this story which has moved some members of the public to sympathy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2731&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balls talks bollocks</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/13/balls-talks-bollocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labour party wont move on until it faces up to its mistakes and rejects the unsavoury characters from the New Labour years. If it doesn't then, once the Tories have fallen out of favour, we will be faced with another Labour government  wastin ti's time on spin rather than achieving objectives. In the words of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition the Labour party need to “Confess the heinous sin of heresy”and “reject the works of the ungodly”.  ie admit that they screwed up and chuck out the likes of Balls.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2712&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hampshire Councillors cut spending to give themselves a bonus</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/05/hampshire-council-cuts-spending-give-themselves-a-bonus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can only conclude that  Ken Thornber is lying in order to disguise the fact that he has forced all his staff to give up bonuses in order to make savings so he and his friends can cream off some of the savings for himself. What a bastard!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2636&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chill out Murray and have some fun</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/01/chill-out-murray-and-have-some-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presumably this overt display of aggression stems from the self image of many American men. To quote General Stanley McChrystal: “Figure out how your enemy operates, be faster and more ruthless than everybody else, then take the fuckers out.”.

Yeh, thanks for that Stan, is there someone else we can talk to?

Years ago I worked for the  investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston and there was an American manager there who proclaimed “Business is War”. Of course the manager was TALKING BOLLOCKS. Business is not war “Business is business”. I'd even take issue with the old saying, “business before pleasure” preferring  the Thai attitude to life where  anything worth doing, including work, should have some element of "Sanuk" ( fun ) .<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2625&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rome stag and a complicated British Airways sandwich</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/06/21/rome-stag-and-a-complicated-british-airways-sandwich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday morning we visited the Colosseum. The area was thronged with all the trappings of tourism: Guides, souvenirs, us etc. I guess 'twas ever thus and in a way that is part of the fun. I thought of the Edwardian tourists in in A Room With A View and The Life of Brian when they sold stones and bags of gravel just prior to the stoning. When we gaze upon wonders of the ancient world it is tempting to imbue the creators of these artefacts with awesome and ponderous spirituality. Thankfully Monty Python have shown us a vision of the reality of these people who would have been more akin to modern day builders. While the architects of Canary Wharf and the Gherkin may well hob nob with royalty and have their heads up their arses the actual builders probably supped tea from a saucer, whistled at passing young women and had their arses sticking out the backs of their trousers. Likewise with the Colosseum, it is comforting to realise that the Colosseum building site would have had more in common with Auf Wiedersehen Pet than with Spartacus.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2577&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ignorance of asset price inflation reveals Brown&#8217;s incompetence</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/04/08/gordon-browns-ignorance-of-asset-price-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suggest that Gordon Brown is like any number of technocrats who are amazingly knowledgeable about a subject but have no judgement or understanding. Mr. Brown read of the mistakes made with inflation in the past, learnt the accepted remedy and then blindly applied this remedy without once stepping back and seeing the enormous bubble in property and share prices.

Mr. Brown is like some bureaucratic ticket collector, deaf to the beseeching cries of the passengers, he insist on following rules and clipping everyone's tickets while the train careers across a cliff.

Mr. Humphrys pointed out this morning that the stock market valuation for The Royal Bank of Scotland had grown larger than the UK economy. Even with this alarm bell the size of the Mount Everest Mr. Brown did not think that there had been any indication of the impeding disaster.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2243&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel lays the groundwork for talks by spitting in the Palestinians faces</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/03/10/israel-lays-the-groundwork-for-talks-by-spitting-in-the-palestinians-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And that is exactly the point. Israel has deliberately contrived to insult the Palestinians just when talks are due to begin again. The Israelis used to accuse Yassa Arafat of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity but we have seen time and again how, every time that the Israel is manoeuvred into starting to talks with the Palestinians, the Israelis begin by spitting in the faces of the Palestinians.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2194&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How bad do Labour and the Tories have to get before you vote Liberal?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/03/04/just-how-bad-do-the-tories-and-labour-have-to-get-before-you-vote-liberal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Blair believed in privatisation because he had seen that this strategy had worked for Thatcher. Tony Blair understood nothing. He believed fanatically in privatisation the same way that a convert to becomes bound up with the rules and not the spirit of their chosen religion. The same way that ex-patriots fein obsession with the minutia of their home county.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2178&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conniving gits deny any wrongdoing</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/02/15/conniving-gits-deny-any-wrongdoing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I am a conniving git who is guilty as sin but I have not yet worked out my story. Specifically I have not yet worked out which details of my crime for which the authorities have acquired irrefutable evidence and for which, a specific denial, would catch me out. I am therefore making this bland general denial of everything in the desperate hope that the authorities have not got enough evidence to convict me and to play for time while my expensive legal advisers work out a way for me to bluff this out.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&blog=2000120&post=2129&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mr. Mandelson denies any wrongdoing, again, and again, and again....</media:title>
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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&blog=2000120&post=1899&subd=talkingbollocks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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