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											<title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Ofsted are heavily favouring academies and &#8216;free schools&#8217; in inspections, claim teachers]]></title>
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											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:00:12 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[johnpauldickie]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Ofsted, the independent organisation that reports to Parliament on quality of schools and other educational establishments, has been favouring Academies and Free Schools in what teachers claim is the government’s plan to say that they have improved education and schools during their time in government. This comes weeks after schools are accused of bribing worst [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[The Inside Job and Money Never Sleeps: How much is too much?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/inside-job-money-never-sleeps-america-debt]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:43:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lawrence Serewicz]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The documentary film Inside Job and the studio movie Money Never Sleeps (the sequel to Wall Street) tried to teach us lessons about the danger of excessive gain. Yet, they both failed in their main educative goal. Instead of showing us the folly of an excessive appetite, the desire for more profit to the point [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[The Kony 2012 Scam: Why capturing Kony will never help child soldiers &#8211; here&#8217;s what you need to know]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/capturing-kony-2012-child-soldiers]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Apr 2012 8:00:07 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Elise Duff]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[A lot has been written about the viral video, the charity which produced it and Joseph Kony himself since the video went viral. So far, the narrator and star of the video appears to have had a rather public breakdown, the charity&#8217;s workers have been under siege by paparazzi and the Ugandan government has released a video [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Putin is back – but what does this mean for Russia? How a major uprising might be closer than first thought]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/putin-russia-protests]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 2:31:45 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Magnus]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[&#8230;He’s Back! The election results are in and&#8230;Putin is back! What a shocker of a result! With 63.75% of the vote, it has been assured to resemble a decisive win. Of course, he never really left the building so to speak, his agreement with Medvedev to do a ‘switch up’ in 2012 an open political [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[A look at the support available to entrepreneurs: Which schemes are a waste of money and which are the real deal?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/support-resources-entrepreneurs]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 2:28:42 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Moulton]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Prime Minister made a speech in Leeds to rally support of the national enterprise campaign for StartUp Britain.  In his speech he said: &#8220;This isn’t something we’d quite like to do; this is something we’ve absolutely got to do because enterprise is critical to this country’s future.&#8221; From my knowledge of economics I [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[The Occupy Movement had no impact at all: ‘Their continual PR stunts only fortify the pride and arrogance of the organisers’]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/occupy-movement-no-impact]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 2:24:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucas McCartney]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[“Because in today&#8217;s atmosphere your job in the big faceless corporation is more important than your opinion of the big faceless corporation” Activism as defined by Google is the &#8220;Policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change&#8221;. Now that is all well and good but activism in the modern [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Does class size really matter? The real issue is that &#8216;non-educational aims&#8217; forced on teachers are diluting academic content]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/class-size-schools]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 2:21:55 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam England]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[When I first started teaching and ventured tentatively into the territory known as the staff room, it was like stepping into a society segregated by subject where the language of the Science site was alien to the habitat of the History faculty, where Maths teachers shot quizzical looks towards their lesser-logical colleagues in the English [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[On the UK &#8211; US extradition treaty: The west is far from superior when it comes to justice]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/the-uk-us-extradition-treaty]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 2:18:39 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that I feel sickened by political decisions.  Economically at least, I&#8217;ll take the rough with the smooth, and won&#8217;t allow politics to affect the things I do in my life.  When it comes to human rights though, and the need to protect our own nationals from practices we would not undertake on [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How the right wing arguments around debt in the UK are inconsistent and contradictory]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/debt-argument-right-wing]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 1:58:26 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Watkinson]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Debt, essentially public debt, has been ideologically manufactured by political leaders in a symbiotic relationship with the media as a travesty. If not reduced, we are told, it will destroy the hopes and futures of generations to come, but in the words of a left wing Manic Street Preaches song about the Spanish Civil War, “if you [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[An in-depth look at the Leveson Inquiry &#8211; how the scale of reform needs to go beyond relationship between the police and the press]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/leveson-inquiry-police-press-relationship]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Apr 2012 0:19:17 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lawrence Serewicz]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Quaeritur: Pone seram, chibe. Sequis cusodiet ipsos Custodes? -Juvenal, VI, 347 Respondendum: Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat qui custodit eam –Solomon The Question: “Keep your wife under guard.” Yes, but who will guard the guardians? The answer: Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. (Preface to Bertrand de [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Why Britain should stay in the EU – and how ‘we need to accept that greater ties and integration are inevitable’]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/britain-stay-in-european-union]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:50 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The EU, two little letters that have the ability to boil the blood or to make you rejoice in happiness for ever (especially if you’re German). It is quite strange though, that something which is seen as rather insignificant and a bit useless by some is treated with such utter and continuous disdain that permeates [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[The Liberal Democrats and the &#8216;Liberal Left&#8217;: Left, right or centre ground? Who cares?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/liberal-democrats-left-right-centre]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:00:30 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The newspapers have been quick to denounce the Liberal Democrats and imply that they are clearly fracturing with the creation of the &#8220;Liberal Left&#8221; that will be launched at the Spring Conference 2012. Alongside the occasionally maverick group Social Liberal Forum, such factionalism is both embraced and abhorred by members of this political party. The [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Alex Salmond reveals lack of confidence about Scottish people wanting independence &#8211; does this reflect public opinion?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/alex-salmond-scottish-independent]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:00:44 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Jones]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The First Minister of Scotland said to reporters last year that “nations are nations if they feel themselves to be nations, and Scotland overwhelmingly feels itself to be a nation”.  If you take away the fluffy dialogue that is begging to be used as a soundbite, this quote distributes a simple claim from Alex Salmond; [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Here’s why the undemocratic presence of 26 religious figures (Archbishops and Bishops) in the House of Lords should end]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/bishops-house-of-lords-should-be-removed]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:00:22 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Anthony]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Have the Lords Spiritual – otherwise known as the Bishops in the House of Lords – finally brought a long-overdue examination of their role in the House of Lords, at the heart of our political establishment? By tabling a wrecking amendment to the Government’s Welfare Bill, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has brought much [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How the UK’s economic recovery depends on transport infrastructure investment in regions beyond London, the South East]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/ippr-north-transport-rail-infrastructure-investment]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Feb 2012 8:15:57 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Cox]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The IPPR is the leading progressive think-tank behind a report which recently revealed how 84 per cent of George Osborne’s £5bn infrastructure programme would be spent in the South against just 6 per cent in the North. “Without a rebalanced economy we will never have sustainable public finances or a prosperous economy.” George Osborne’s words echo [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[At a time when Euroscepticism is a hot topic, should the UK be looking beyond Europe for growth opportunities?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/european-union-bric-countries-investment]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:51 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, we are well and truly integrated with Europe.  Over the years, political ties, agreements and treaties have brought us all closer than ever before, so much so that some are now referring to the United States of Europe.  They cannot be far wrong really, with EU countries named &#8216;member states&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for North Korea to grow up &#8211; but will the country change under new leader Kim Jong-un?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/north-korea-kim-jong-un-change]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Jan 2012 9:00:43 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Sims]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The death of the communist leader of the most secretive nation in the world, Kim Jong-il, has sparked a lot of international interest regarding the future for this lonely and isolated country. Could the new administration decide that interaction with the outside world is not needed, or will they come to their senses and allow [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How changing the subject title from ICT to Computer Science in the National Curriculum won&#8217;t fix anything]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/ict-computer-science-education-uk]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:36 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Curtis]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Ah BETT, always good for a laugh. The Better Education Through Technology show is a year event at The Olympia in London dedicated to offering solutions for today’s educational problems. Walk through the event and you will find a myriad of vendors, suppliers and management companies peddling their wares, it often reminds me of some sort [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Do we need more physical startups instead of web startups? How innovation is lacking in physical businesses]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/physical-startups-retail-sector-innovation]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Jan 2012 9:00:47 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[If you could invest in anything right now, what would it be?  Assume that money is no object, what trends do you see, what bubbles do you think are growing and what do you think the future is?  Not many of us really ask ourselves these questions, undoubtedly due to a lack of funds but [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Diane Abbott has fallen victim to a powerful Twitter mob &#8211; but was she really racist?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/diane-abbott-racist-twitter-mob]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:40:34 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Rutherford]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[One tweet sent from Dianne Abbott to investigative journalist Bim Adewunmi in the midst of a conversation regarding the Stephen Lawrence case has landed her in hot water. The tweet, which some claim to be racist, alludes to the fact that white people loving to “divide and rule”, which Abbott hashtagged as a “tactic as [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Young entrepreneurs should go to university &#8211; and here&#8217;s why]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/young-entrepreneurs-university]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 9:00:20 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[cameronrawson]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Too often I hear and read about entrepreneurs who never went to university. I very rarely hear the praises being sung about a successful entrepreneur who went to university &#8211; but these people do exist. University is critiqued far too much by those interested in business and the growing number of &#8216;wantrepreneurs&#8217;. I recently read [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[A look back at 2011: This is what&#8217;s wrong with the UK]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/a-look-back-at-2011-whats-wrong-with-the-uk]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Dec 2011 9:00:26 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Following the recession, the UK appears to now be going through a transitional period.  It seems the initial financial restructuring was not enough to get the world economy back on track, something which I think may well turn out to be a blessing in disguise.  This is because I believe in the Darwinian attitude to [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Gisela Stuart MP on Elected Mayors, and why Birmingham would be &#8216;the best governed city&#8217; once more if it got one]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/gisela-stuart-elected-mayor-birmingham]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 Dec 2011 9:30:44 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gisela Stuart]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[“The best governed city in the world”. That was how Birmingham, newly elevated to full city status, announced itself to the globe back in the 1890s. Self-confident, determined and assertive, Birmingham’s civic leaders set new frontiers for local government and created a legacy that would endure for the best part of a century. Fast forward [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[The Leveson Inquiry Review: Week Three – Charlotte Church, Richard Peppiatt, Paul McMullan, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/the-leveson-inquiry-review-week-three]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:41 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Jones]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[“I was slightly proud that I’d written something that created a riot” declared former News of the World Deputy Features Editor, Paul McMullan at the Leveson Inquiry on Tuesday.  If you think that quote is bizarre, he hadn’t even got started at that point.  Later on in his session, he made the now-infamous statement “privacy [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[DUP Conference Coverage: Can Northern Ireland ever be a society free of sectarianism?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/dup-conference-coverage-coverage-sectarianism]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2011 8:50:16 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Lavery]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[It was apparent upon arrival at this year’s annual DUP conference (on the outskirts of East Belfast) that it was set to be the biggest and busiest conference to date for the party. There was buoyancy and a palpable mood of excitement in the air amongst the many hundreds of delegates. There were almost no [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Jamie Rumbelow on how to fix higher education]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/jamie-rumbelowon-higher-education]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:00:48 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[jamierumbelow]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The news just came through the wire that our fearless leader and the founder of PostDesk,  Mr. Sam England, has just officially become Mr. Sam England, LLB (Hons). Firstly, a huge round of applause to Sam for working so hard and achieving a great result in such a challenging course. Sam has managed to build [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Hugh Grant at the Leveson Inquiry: Hugh do you believe; the actor or the tabloid?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/hugh-grant-leveson-inquiry]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:00:21 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Jones]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The news coverage of Monday’s proceedings at the Leveson Inquiry will split every media outlet into two very definite categories. Two key sessions at the Royal Courts of Justice saw two very different donations of evidence. The first saw the parents of a murdered teenager describe how their already overturned lives were muddled further when [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street police brutality: What makes a police officer in 2011? #ows]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/occupy-wall-street-police-brutality-2011-ows]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:04:54 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Sisskind]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of weeks, the Occupy Movement has seen domestic police brutality rise to levels not seen since Vietnam. Students at the UC Davis campus suffered pain from point-blank pepper spray injuries days after campus police officer Lt. John Pike sprayed them in cold blood. During the raid on Zucotti Park last Tuesday, [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Leveson Inquiry: The Sun, The Daily Mirror face allegations of phone hacking &#8211; will they face the same fate as NOTW?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/leveson-inquiry-the-sun-the-daily-mirror-phone-hacking-scandal]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Nov 2011 9:30:24 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum Jones]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[This morning, Lord Justice Leveson formally launched an official public inquiry into media standards, following the hacking scandal that engulfed July. Considering it was only the first day of the investigation, a number of ground-breaking claims were put forward for the first time. The most significant of these proposals was undeniably that Private Investigator Glen [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[SDLP Conference coverage: Technical difficulties aside, could it quite literally be &#8216;lights out&#8217; for the SDLP?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/sdlp-conference-alasdair-mcdonnell-lights-out]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Nov 2011 9:30:11 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[So it’s all over, the press, the opinions and then the subsequent awkwardness has been and gone. No, I am not referring the glitz and glamour of the very successful MTV EMA awards held in Belfast last weekend, I am actually referring to a rather less glamouress affair; the SDLP annual conference. Upon arrival at [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[20 minute conversation at #OccupyLSX between Malcolm Blackman of Anonymous UK, and students from City of London School]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/anonymous-uk-occupy-london-interview]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:24:46 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[A small group of students from City of London School engaged in a heated conversation from a representative of Anonymous UK. The man from Anonymous UK told us how &#8220;&#8230;everyone seems to think we&#8217;re hackers&#8221; and how whilst &#8220;there is a small number of hackers out there&#8221;, Anonymous is &#8220;&#8230;mainly people who are here to [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How Labour can win the next election &#8211; a policy review]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/how-labour-can-win-the-next-election-policy-review]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Oct 2011 9:30:49 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Labour face a serious problem, while they may be slightly ahead in the polls, Conservative support is holding up well, despite them implementing the harshest ‘cuts’ for a generation (despite there being no actual cutting taking place, spending is still rising under Cameron every year (but we will gloss over that). The problem for Labour [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[An analysis by @JaneWatkinson: Whose economic policy would help Britain the most &#8211; the Conservatives or Labour?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/economic-policy-britain-conservatives-or-labour-debt-crisis]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Oct 2011 9:30:15 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Watkinson]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[In last week&#8217;s seminar, my lecturer discussed the paradox of the Labour Party&#8217;s economic strategy. Such a paradox I find rather illuminating given the ongoing debate and discussion by the mainstream parties of the appropriate response to the worsening economic crisis, in the backdrop of a neoliberally controlled and defined Eurozone that is experiencing some [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Liam Fox Resigns over links with Adam Werritty: Did he jump or was he pushed?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/liam-fox-resigns-adam-werritty]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:45:56 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[First, it was a misleading tale about a cat that left the Tories spinning. This time, it’s a certain Fox that’s given the Prime Minister a headache. The story of the relationship between the Secretary of State for Defence and Adam Werritty began to unravel as the Conservative Party Conference drew to a close in [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How the religious right censored the UK media &#8211; Christian Mothers&#8217; Union head appointed as &#8216;expert&#8217; by David Cameron]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/how-the-religious-right-censored-the-uk-media-christian-mothers-union-head-appointed-as-expert-by-cameron]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:16:32 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Although the Internet’s roots lie in defence and academic research projects in the 50s and 60s, it only exploded into the public consciousness in the mid-90s, after Tim Berners-Lee created the technologies behind the Worldwide Web. This was, not only in hindsight but widely recognised at the time, a hugely significant moment in human development; [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Will Murdoch’s Media empire continue to have the a stranglehold over political parties in England?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/murdoch-media-influence-and-recent-events-thoughts]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Oct 2011 9:30:37 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Politicians from both parties, advisors and spin doctors fought with each other and jockeyed for position to persuade, charm and convert the executives of News International on a daily basis. Ongoing events at Westminster have differed from most occurrences in memory. Labour declared war on Murdoch, a Conservative Prime Minister promised enquiries into media ethics [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How Sarah Palin is the most iconic, capable and thoughtful campaigner in modern politics]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/sarah-palin-smart-intelligent-campaigner]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Oct 2011 8:30:15 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin has just announced that she is not running for President. She still intends to express her opinions and to work actively to help the sort of Tea Party candidates who share her views. She also still has a lot of people who respect her views so her support will be eagerly sought by [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[How over simplistic, damaging assessments of our culture lead to bad policy decisions]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/structure-and-agency-in-politics]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:06:16 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Watkinson]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[A central debate within politics is the relationship between agency and structure – does structure prevail over agency? Does agency take precedence over structure? Or does structure and agency exist in a complex interplay where agents and structural factors influence each other interdependently? This is a question without a &#8216;solution&#8217; as such, but there is [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Is American Democracy simply a facade?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/is-american-democracy-simply-a-facade-2]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:30:31 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucas McCartney]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The American Dream, which has been a long standing tradition within the American mind set, is slowly being worn away from underneath the people’s noses. Essentially, the declaration that ‘all men are equal’ is no longer a paramount part of America’s history. Since the beginning of the 20th century, America has over come many boundaries, [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[What Ed Balls didn’t tell you in his speech – Labour’s economic mistakes stem from it’s love of the market #lab11]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/labour-party-conference-2011-ed-balls-economic-mistakes]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:15:15 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Ed Balls, speaking at Labour&#8217;s Annual Conference, admitted Labour made mistakes in its economic policies while in government. I agree. However, what Balls didn&#8217;t really acknowledge was the origin of these mistakes. Let&#8217;s take the one Balls and others have cited &#8211; &#8216;light touch&#8217; banking regulation. This is clearly a textbook example of the flawed [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Ed Miliband&#8217;s Labour Party Conference 2011 speech in full]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/ed-milibands-labour-party-conference-2011-speech-in-full]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:00:17 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Thank you Conference. It’s great to be in Liverpool. Labour Liverpool. A generation ago a Labour leader came to Conference to condemn the behaviour of a Labour Council in Liverpool. Today I come to Liverpool, proud to hold our Conference in this great city. Proud of the work our Labour council is doing. Conference, it’s [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Labour Party Conference: Ivan Lewis&#8217;s speech in full &#8211; proposes journalists should be &#8216;struck off&#8217;]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/ivan-lewis-labour-speech-journalists-struck-off]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:31:01 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[I want to begin my speech today with some thank yous. To my brilliant team Gloria de Piero, Ian Lucas, Ian Austin and Ian Murray for their commitment and support during the past year. To Sophie, David and my constituency team for their endless patience and sound advice. But most of all to you. Those [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[10 years on: An interview with Mike Williams, founder of 911myths.com which rebuts the claims of 9/11 conspiracy theorists]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/10-years-on-interview-with-mike-williams-founder-of-911myths-com-which-rebuts-the-claims-of-911-conspiracy-theorists]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 11 Sep 2011 0:37:13 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Mike Williams is a 9/11 conspiracy theory – someone who rebuts, or ‘debunks’ the claims of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. He started the website 911myths.com in 2005, which allows the visitor to “…look into the claims yourself, discover both sides of the argument, and make your own mind up. I have no grand aims. I was [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[10 years on: An interview with &#8216;Scholars for #9/11 Truth&#8217; founder James Fetzer on his theories and why he pursues them]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/james-fetzer-scholars-for-911-conspiracy-theories]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:53:38 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[We interviewed James Fetzer, the man behind Scholars for 9/11 Truth , and American philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a key figure in the 9/11 &#8216;truth movement&#8217;. We began by asking him about his views on 9/11, and what his theories surrounding the events are. He told us that “…elements [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[10 years on: An interview with James Hufferd Ph.D. &#8211; a key #9/11 &#8216;truther&#8217; that maintains attacks were an &#8216;inside job&#8217;]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/10-years-on-an-interview-with-james-hufferd-ph-d-a-key-911-truther-that-maintains-attacks-were-an-inside-job]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:55:27 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Collectively known as &#8216;truthers&#8217; or members of the &#8217;9/11 Truth movement&#8217;, James Hufferd is a key figure in the group of organisations, individuals, and professionals including architects, engineers, scientists, scholars, and ex-military or services personell who question the accepted or &#8216;official&#8217; account of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, New York, and [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[It’s time for NATO to pack its bags and piss off back to Brussels!]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/time-for-nato-to-pack-its-bags-and-piss-off-back-to-brussels]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:58:06 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The rather tacky sculpture of a golden fist crushing a US fighter jet in commemoration of the 1986 air strikes on Libya will doubtless go down as one of the iconic images of the 42-year reign of Moammar Gaddafi in much the same way as the Victory Arch in central Baghdad symbolized the once formidable rule of Saddam Hussein. [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Chuck a stone at the police and not only will we lock you up, we’ll take away your house!]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/london-rioters-evictions-collective-punishment]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:17:16 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[The recent decision by conservative-run Wandsworth Council (and others) to begin eviction proceedings against the families of charged (not convicted!) rioters has got to be one of the cruelest, dumbest and unfairest of its kind. And if that wasn’t shocking enough, David Cameron has weighed in by unequivocally stating that it is only right and proper that people who “loot [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[David Starkey Uncut: A rebuttal of Starkeys new defensive Telegraph piece]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/david-starkey-uncut-a-rebuttal-of-starkeys-telegraph-piece]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:57:53 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[annahedge]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[David Starkey has emerged from his bunker to write a piece for the Telegraph.  One of the defences put up by his supporters in the wake of the Newsnight discussion was that he had been unable to fully develop his argument, as he had been interrupted and heckled by both Emily Maitlis and his fellow [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Is David Starkey racist or just plain stupid?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/david-starkey-racist-or-just-plain-stupid]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:58:13 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[It was not very long after he claimed that ‘whites have become black’ that the accusations of racism started coming in fast and furiously. For almost two days, David Starkey was the top trending topic on Twitter with no signs of abating. But now that the dust has settled somewhat, it is perhaps opportune to [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Why David Starkey is a racist &#8211; an analysis]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/david-starkey-newsnight-racist-analysis]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:35:47 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[annahedge]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Quite why David Starkey was on the Newsnight panel in the first place remains something of a mystery. His specialism is the Tudor period, and whilst it might have been enlightening to hear him on the topic with regard to recent events, that’s not what we got. Neither is he an authority on the history [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Interview with Sanum Ghafoor, the Muslim woman who created #blamethemuslims hashtag]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/interview-with-sanum-ghafoor-the-muslim-woman-who-created-blamethemuslims-hashtag]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:28:38 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[19 year old Sanum Ghafoor, a university student in London is now notorious for starting the popular #blamethemuslims Twitter hashtag which ‘trended’ globally for 48 hours just a few days ago.  We spoke to Sanum the day after, and got the full story about why she did it, and what she thinks of the reaction [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Follow up: Entrepreneur featured on front page of #StartUpBritain speaks out]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/entrepreneur-featured-on-front-page-of-startupbritain-speaks-out]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Apr 2011 3:35:10 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[StartUpBritain is still getting a slating from bloggers and from many on Twitter. In this article, we look at some of the reactions and responses. Aside from living up to its name as a link farm and being found to host malicious software and malware on its site, and the 99 designs link being moved [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Why #StartUpBritain is nothing more than a government backed link farm]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/why-startup-britain-is-nothing-more-than-a-government-backed-link-farm]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:37:02 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[David Cameron launched a new, unoriginally named website (see Startup America)  today purporting to be a “£1500 rescue package” for small businesses. The launch came with much media fanfare, and it focussed solely around a website &#8211; ‘startupbritain.org’. To the trained eye, it’s clearly a glorified, government backed ‘link farm’ – a term which is used by those in the industry [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Why our National Curriculum is a National Joke and how the teaching of IT in the UK needs an overhaul]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/ict-gcse-edexcel-overhaul-national-curriculum-teaching]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:11:31 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Ask any 13 year old child what computers mean to them and I am sure you will not find mention of any of the following: word processing, safe and secure storage, data protection, flowcharts and legalities. Sounds dry, doesn’t it? Provokes the question, why so serious, even? Yet believe it or not, the 2010 rerelease [...]]]></description>
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											<title><![CDATA[Enough of the &#8216;squeezed middle&#8217;, what about the downtrodden working class?]]></title>
											<link><![CDATA[http://www.postdesk.com/enough-of-the-squeezed-middle]]></link>
											<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:11:19 +0100]]></pubDate>
											<dc:creator><![CDATA[PostDesk Team]]></dc:creator>
											<description><![CDATA[Ed Miliband has talked incessantly of the &#8216;squeezed middle classes&#8217; but I&#8217;d like to remind him of his traditional Labour supporters &#8211; the working classes &#8211; who he seems to have forgotten about. Today the Department of Health announced that prescription charges are to rise despite strong opposition from the British Medical Association (BMA) and [...]]]></description>
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