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		<title>May was the best PM of a bad lot</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (11th March, 2024) Theresa May has announced she is leaving the political stage at the next election while polls indicate that the party [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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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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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (19th April, 2021) Political careers all end in failure, according to a famous dictum, yet not all of those involved end up soiled and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (21st January, 2021) There is a maxim in politics that leaders are defined as much by their successors as by their own triumphs and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Tortoise (7th January, 2021) Soon after Tony Blair won his second landslide election victory, the Daily Telegraph interviewed five women to ask why they wanted to become MPs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (31st August, 2020) Hala has known nothing but conflict and chaos all her life. She was eight years old when her nation was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stop the mockery, end the pity and start to engage</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (20th January, 2020) Boris Johnson has displayed repulsive views on Africa. He has been racist, with a column referring to &#8216;tribal warriors&#8217; breaking out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Guardian (29th August, 2019) The resignation of a Scottish Tory leader does not tend to be seismic political news. I doubt, for instance, many people [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 09:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (10th May, 2019) Football. Bloody hell! First Liverpool’s brilliant fightback against Barcelona taking them to a second successive European Champions League final, then Spurs swept [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2019 16:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Damn (18th April, 2019) It seems strange to recall that when I was growing up in the suburbs of London almost half a century ago, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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