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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Tortoise (29th April, 2019) It must have felt like the good old days as they walked into the spotlight. Most of the audience stood up, some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (5th November, 2018) This may be a controversial statement in the current political climate, but David Cameron is a decent person. As prime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I fear for the future when the world&#8217;s fate hangs on these two mavericks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 13:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) Outside my window in one of the world’s most advanced cities, I can hear protesters chanting angrily against ‘Crazy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The fattest charity fat cat of them all</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st January, 2017) A foreign aid ‘fat cat’ has made millions out of the cash handed to his charity by the British [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A broken system, angry electorate and uncertain future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (21st September, 2015) I met Christopher last week in a café in central Texas, a smart young man with unfulfilled ambitions. &#8216;I’m basically a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Democrats could do better than another Clinton</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (13th April, 2015) It is not exactly surprising, but Hillary Clinton has confirmed what everyone already knew: she wants to be president of the United States. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The folly of the 0.7% foreign-aid solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by the Wall Street Journal (10th July, 2014) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki won global applause when he introduced free primary-school education over a decade ago. Who could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Independent (January 3rd, 2014) Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school together, worked alongside each other in Ugandan intelligence and then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Guardian (February 19th, 2013) A few weeks ago I had a coffee with one of the most admired Tory thinkers. A radical libertarian, he spent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Natural disaster, man-made hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The World Today (February 8th, 2013) The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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