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		<title>Jimmy Carter&#8217;s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (31st December, 2024) When Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981, he was one of the most reviled United States presidents in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (24th July, 2023) Sometimes, the jibes from political opponents sting since they are so close to the bone – and Michael Gove, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (27th February, 2023) Last week, Sir Tony Blair published an article in The Daily Telegraph headlined “One thing is clear: Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why do we end up with such inadequate prime ministers?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (17th January, 2022) Of course Boris Johnson should resign – and if he refuses to leave, he should be pushed out by his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Downfall of the gangster dictator</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2022) Dictatorship was once famously compared to riding a tiger since there is such high risk of being devoured when dismounting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yet another tawdry saga for the Blairs</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (October 8th, 2021) Cherie Blair says she is a passionate feminist and dedicated human rights lawyer who exploits her connections, skills and status [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (23rd August, 2021) Ten years ago, I stood in the ransacked residence of the British ambassador to Libya, staring through a hole blasted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the so-called war on terror, the US has slunk [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Time to ditch white saviour complex</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (23rd November, 2020) The Government&#8217;s debt, inflamed by frantic efforts to fight the impact of the pandemic, has soared to unprecedented peacetime levels. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where have all the good politicians gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (1st July, 2020) Tony Blair has had the most successful career of any politician since Margaret Thatcher. He won three general elections, reshaped the country [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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