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		<title>No More Numpties</title>
		<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/01/13/edward-pearce/no-more-numpties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does it happen that Scottish Nationalism walks and talks as if it’s able to call terms over an independence referendum which opinion polls suggest it would lose? A major reason for the SNP’s sweep to absolute majority last May was the inadequacy of the Scottish Labour Party. At Devolution, such was Westminster complacency, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s Bourbons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no inherent harm in the opposition defence spokesman accepting ministerial defence cuts. From a party committed to Trident replacement, it might be a faint, late virtue. There is every possible objection to coupling it with talk of rejecting populism (whatever that means here) and hinting at readier general acquiesence. The effect (and presumably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science still in the back seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel S. Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disappointment is the frequent outcome of science’s yearning to be honoured and heeded by politics. For scientists appalled by George W. Bush’s indifference to scientific data and values, candidate Obama looked so promising. And even more so when he vowed in his inaugural address to ‘restore science to its rightful place’. A few months later, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osborne&#8217;s &#8216;Savings&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/12/02/ross-mckibbin/osbornes-savings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McKibbin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chancellor’s autumn statement was rhetorically quite adroit. It remains within the ‘narrative’ established by the coalition when it was formed – that Britain’s debts were at unprecedented levels, and as such there was no alternative to paying them off as fast as possible. Anything else would lead to our being no better than Greece, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anterior Fears</title>
		<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/11/09/edward-pearce/anterior-fears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Philip Gould was a man of conviction, but he personified a fundamental political error: insisting on the fighting the last war during the next. The Labour Party would lose all its radicalism in the 1990s because influential people like Gould were still armed for battle with Arthur Scargill, the Militant Tendency and Michael [...]]]></description>
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