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		<title>cunts fashionable with newsmen but fuck more popular</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/01/cunts-fashionable-with-news-readers-but-bastard-most-popular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly Google Ngram viewer shows that, as far as literature is concerned, the term cunt has been growing in popularity since the 1960s roughly following the popularity curve of tits and wanker. Bastard has long been popular and bum has been growing in popularity but the real star performer here is the word fuck. Fuck has shot up in popularity and is now more used even than bastard. This is comforting as it is in accord with my own experience of TV stand up comedy shows. Odd then that serious news presenters seemed to have become obsessed with cunts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3596&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bankers, Regulators and law makers &#8220;stumble&#8221; on a bargain</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/20/bankers-regulators-and-law-makers-stumble-on-a-bargain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article in The Independent says that “executives will be appointed after the flotation”. It seems odd to wait until after the flotation to appoint executives but perhaps the new bank will be such a money spinner that they could employ any old fool to run it. If past performance is any indicator of future results then they probably will though it is not known if Sir Fred is still available.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2757&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China loses face by sabotaging climate change talks</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/12/23/china-loses-face-by-shafting-climate-change-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have said already, in a previous article, Chinese watchers tell us that China is culturally very prickly and this may be so but I believe this prickliness is not entirely cultural. Rather I suspect it has more in common with other authoritarian leaders who are used to getting their own way and refuse to tolerate opposition. Recall Hitler's tantrums and Kruschev banging his shoe on the desk at the UN? This is not cultural difference but arrogant and dangerous narcism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=1870&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China in Who&#8217;s hands?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/12/20/china-in-whos-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both China and the West have gained from the flow of trade but we should consider that, having now allowed so much industry to move to China, we have become reliant on an authoritarian regime which cares for nothing but perpetuating it's own existence. We should also keep this in mind when businessmen and political leaders talk of the necessity of allowing the free flow of trade to countries where there is “competitive advantage”. This competitive advantage is, very often, the absence of political rights,  civil rights and the rule of law.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=1818&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear &#8211; 2</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/12/05/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a blog article in November 2008. This argued that New Labour are introducing too many laws to increases state control and erode personal freedom and listed a few such as identity cards and mass interception of Emails. The argument in favour of these laws is usually “If you have nothing to hide, then you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=1647&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British government duck responsibility for release of Lockerbie bomber</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/08/24/british-government-duck-responsibility-for-release-of-lockerbie-bomber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn’t it strange how quiet the British government have gone now that they have released the Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. Isn’t it odd that the decision was made and recounted to the press by an unknown Scottish bureaucrat. New Labour were born in spin and thanks to Mandelson they will die in spin. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=1042&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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