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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Spectator (3rd June, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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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 i paper (24th April, 2024) The wily Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has shown great skill at fooling gullible Western politicians into supporting his dictatorship, whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ruling on Rwanda is a win for decency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (30th June, 2023) What a fine start to the day. First came a forceful report from the Conservative-dominated Privileges Committee condemning the Boris [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The prince is as hypocritical as the PM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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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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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (21st March, 2022) This is a tale of two dictators. Both have a background in espionage, trained in the dark arts of intelligence [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Truss urged to block diplomat over kidnap of Hotel Rwanda hero</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th December, 2021) Foreign secretary Liz Truss is being urged to block the appointment of Rwanda&#8217;s top diplomat in London over his central [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (6th December, 2021) Earlier this year, Baroness Kennedy was contacted by the two daughters of Paul Rusesabagina — human rights campaigner, winner of the US [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (20th March, 2021) Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad&#160;by Michela Wrong (4th Estate) Once upon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>National newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 11:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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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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