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		<title>Starmer should tell the truth about foreign aid</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (9th March, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer has had a good few days, displaying adroitness as he sought to navigate an upended global order in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Sun (18th November, 2014) Sometimes, even for secular saints, the truth is uncomfortable &#8211; as Sir Bob has discovered yesterday when cut off on television [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should Band Aid be resurrected?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (16th November, 2014) The Observer debate with Tim Ingham (Editor, Music Week) IB: Absolutely not. The only good thing is to learn the toe-curling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sorry Bob &#8211; Band Aid has done more harm than good</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (12th November, 2014) Once again, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure have lined up the latest crop of chart-toppers to create another incarnation — [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Observer (26th August, 2012) Think of Ethiopia and what do you see. Perhaps a starving child, flies in her eyes and belly distended. Painfully thin adults [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The aid business has grown fat. It’s time there was proper scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Spectator (February 18th, 2012) Such a simple question: should Oxfam spend a couple of hundred pounds a month opening up the swimming pool at its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The corrosive legacy of Live Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in the Daily Mail (June 4th, 2011) Like most people of my generation, I can still recall with utmost clarity the moment a bunch of denim-clad rockers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Despite our noble intentions, aid does not solve problems &#8211; it just makes them worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 15:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in the Daily Mail (May 18th, 2011) The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad symbolises Pakistan’s profound problems with terrorism and its amazing spirit of survival. Three years ago, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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