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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (29th March, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (31st March, 2025) There is not much to celebrate looking around the world today, seeing the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (13th March, 2025) The comedian Robin Williams used to say that Canadians were the kindest people in the world but had the misfortune to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (13th January, 2025) Joe Biden may still be in the White House, but even before he takes office Donald Trump is setting the global [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (25th November, 2024) This week sees a five-hour debate in Parliament that could lead to one of the most consequential laws this century [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (30th May, 2024) Two years ago, over the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison Ducluzeau started to feel pain in her stomach. At first, she assumed she had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (13th March, 2024) “I never thought this would happen to Reese, but you have to get it through to people that it can happen to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why I believe Dame Esther is profoundly wrong on assisted dying</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (22nd December, 2023) Calls for a change in the law relating to assisted dying rose to a crescendo this week. Yesterday Labour leader [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 11:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the &#8216;Ground Zero&#8217; of Covid two months before China officially [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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