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		<title>The Telegraph&#8217;s poll: no need to add impudence to impertinence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Today the Telegraph has an interview with the &#8220;country&#8217;s top tax man&#8221;, Mr Dave Hartnett, urging householders not to pay tradesmen cash in hand, apparently because it only encourages them to avoid paying VAT. &#8220;“Tax provides the funding to run the country: hospitals, schools and everything else,” he says. “Every time someone pays cash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1600&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, farewell then, Johann Harvey&#8230;I mean HARI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#8217;m kinda sad that Johann &#8220;Harvey&#8221; Hari will not be returning to &#8220;The Independent&#8221; (dread term, as its former, most well-respected columnist Wallace Arnold would say). I was looking forward, perhaps over-gleefully, to seeing exactly what the Great Plagiarist would come up with that would in any way atone for his previous frauds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1593&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Clarkson and the freedom of an unfair press</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Jeremy Clarkson and his merry pranksters from Top Gear are in the soup again, this time over the programme&#8217;s&#8221;India Special&#8221; broadcast twice over the Christmas break. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Indian High Commission is demanding an apology from the BBC over the programme, claiming Top Gear&#8217;s producer Chris Hale misled it over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1577&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting ready for the return of Hari</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, 2012 is upon us for better or worse. Amidst the many pundit predictions of what will come upon us in this coming year, I noticed one curious omission: none dared foresee what should befall us with the imminent rearrival of Johann Hari in our midst. After all, Independent editor Chris Blackhurst has publicly stated that Hari [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1570&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop this cruel display of elderly mental break down!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us know from first-hand the gradual physical and mental break down that occurs with the advancement of years. It has probably occurred among your own loved ones &#8211; the grandmother who remembers clearly what happened thirty years ago, but can&#8217;t recall the cup of tea you just made for her five minutes ago; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1557&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Year 2011: The Invention of Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keen-eyed readers will have noticed I&#8217;ve given the blog a make-over and have added a new section of book reviews, called Scribble, scribble, scribble, which can be accessed here or from the link at the top of this page. The first entry is my book of the year, Judith Flander&#8217;s excellent The Invention of Murder. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Calm and Womble On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morpork</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leveson hearing continues to Bore On for Britain, with live coverage on both BBC News 24 and Sky News, for heaven&#8217;s sake. As if anyone apart from Guido Fawkes and the usual politico-journo junkie suspects are really interested in watching minute-by-minute coverage from that sweaty oak-panelled room in the Royal Courts of Justice, where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1490&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Booker&#8217;s J&#8217;accuse de nos jours</title>
		<link>http://louseandflea.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/christopher-booker-a-man-made-global-warning-from-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the BBC positively, almost childishly, revels in the washing of the tabloids&#8217; dirty linen at the Leveson inquiry, its own dirty deeds have come under the spotlight. And this time it&#8217;s about something more important than sleb&#8217; lives being made uncomfortable and/or having their peccadilloes highlighted by phone hacking and the paps. It&#8217;s about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1482&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When good subbing is essential, Part 96&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re writing a scoop about educational standards&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1479&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nonsense, nonsense and thrice nonsense</title>
		<link>http://louseandflea.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/nonsense-nonsense-and-thrice-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I quite like Fleet Street Blues: it&#8217;s published some of my stuff in the past and it&#8217;s generally on top of what&#8217;s going on in the print press world. But I can&#8217;t forgive its churnalistic response to the latest Harmanesque Guardian nonsense about sex bias in the national press:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/04/why-british-public-life-dominated-men?CMP=twt_gu BOO! Forgive me if I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louseandflea.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9339000&amp;post=1468&amp;subd=louseandflea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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