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		<title>The prince is as hypocritical as the PM</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (13th June, 2022) Prince Charles is right: the Government&#8217;s plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda is “appalling”. It is a callous, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Winners, on and off the pitch</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The enforcer</title>
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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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		<title>A shameful failure of decency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (5th October, 2020) Here we go again. The Tories are sliding in the polls. The prime minister’s popularity is waning fast as his incompetence [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Symbols of the hostile environment</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (7th September, 2020) Clapton Girls’ Academy has a motto to inspire pupils in one of the poorer parts of London: “Arrive with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We owe it to asylum seekers to help them</title>
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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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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2020) Early skirmishes have erupted into open warfare bet-ween the Government and the army of civil servants resisting a Whitehall shake-up. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (24th February, 2020) As someone whose father has severe dementia and daughter needs full-time care for profound disabilities, I have witnessed this country’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This cabinet signals the death of David Cameron’s Tory modernisation project</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2019) When David Cameron took over as Tory leader in 2005, he inherited a party that was downhearted after three electoral defeats. It looked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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