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		<title>Shh&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jenny Diski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you remember the BBC&#8217;s Tomorrow&#8217;s World, you&#8217;ll feel a moment of nostalgia at reading about this exciting scientific breakthrough. The tomorrow of Tomorrow&#8217;s World, like all tomorrows, never came. The marvellous invention or brand new piece of research that was going to change our lives for ever (tomorrow, obviously) never quite got to the point where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arsenic and Our Jane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost disabling, this nothing interesting happening. The world having become entirely uneventful, no worries, no problems, nothing to engage the mind and heart. It&#8217;s a dull time to be alive, but at last there&#8217;s a break in the complete dearth of matters to care about. Jane Austen might have died of arsenic poisoning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meddlesome Prince even more Meddlesome than Previously Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you complain that the Prince of Wales is living above our means, you need to bear in mind that as the owner of the Duchy of Cornwall he is not entitled to spend any of the Duchy&#8217;s capital, merely its annual income, which in 2007 was a niggardly £16.3 million. And here is evidence that the Duchy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shit happens, really</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve got my miserablist head round this exactly, but it seems that not only do pessimists generally have a much more realistic view of the world than optimists, but optimists maintain their unrealistic position by ignoring bad news. Tell someone that the 40 per cent chance they thought they had of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy the Bookcase: A Cautionary Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Diski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doom and gloom doubled last week when the Economist announced not just the death of books, but proved it by the death of bookcases. In particular Billy, a classic IKEA item of furniture that has been available for thirty years, has five adjustable shelves, is cheap enough for students to give up the brick and plank solution [...]]]></description>
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