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		<title>National newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (3rd March, 2021) The Rwandan president Paul Kagame is a master at playing Westerners for adulation and aid money. As I wrote here last week, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Say goodbye to your private life</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper and The Independent (11th April, 2106) Five years ago I heard a software billionaire speak at a seminar organised by Downing Street. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The hate crime that leads to silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper and The Independent (4th April, 2016) It was a shocking crime. Two soldiers, out for a night drinking near their training camp in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Give thanks for Nigel Farage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper &#38; The Independent (28th March, 2016) Last week I was in Amsterdam, where I joined civil servants and diplomats for a discussion on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The sugar tax: the sweet start to a bitter struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper &#38; The Independent (25th March, 2016) It feels a long time since last week’s controversial budget, given the firestorm over disability benefits and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dispelling the myth of humane refugee camps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper &#38; The Independent (7th March 2016) The young mother told me her horror story as we sat drinking tea near the Syrian border. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A new tax to save a struggling health system</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper &#38; The Independent (29th February, 2016) I am not a fan of Sir David Nicholson, the former National Health Service chief executive. His [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper &#38; The Independent (22nd February, 2016) During one of last year’s election debates, Nigel Farage tried to grab the public’s attention with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The spread of fat cats in the public sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper &#38; The Independent (15th February, 2016) Birmingham University was one of the losers in the last global ranking of the world’s finest higher [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The not-so-strange death of The Independent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by CapX (12th February, 2016) When The Independent launched in 1986, I was working on a weekly newspaper in the West Midlands with fuzzy ambitions to reach [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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