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		<title>Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has cut benefits to those without children under 36 so that they are no longer eligible for sufficient Housing Benefit to pay rent on a 1 bedroom flat. They have to live in a shared house. The BBC doesn&#8217;t mention this. It talks about a benefit cap for those getting over £26,000. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War news</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the BBC news website just now I was left with the slight feeling that I had been reading the war news. There were about 4 news stories about war, 4 of a riot, 1 of a diplomatic incident another of a torture camp and some about the stock market slide. Admittedly we are involved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are new workhouses on the horizon yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The changed date in the reduction of housing benefits merited a small mention on the BBC news tonight. Over the last few months cuts to housing benefit and other payments that help the poor must have been given far less than a 10th of the coverage of the child benefit cuts. The housing benefit cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impartial reporting?</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=175</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like two Labour MPs who are on the way out sent a text message to every other Labour MP. The media including the BBC seems to have managed to turn this into a story. For a while it was the main news item on the BBC. The BBC call this batch of text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self service checkout</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=171</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an article on the BBC website about self service checkouts. Personally I try to avoid these as I can imagine a dreadful future where there is one low-paid, very bored shop assistant per supermarket and banks of self service machines. The BBC article seems to think I want someone to speak to. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m left wondering</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=167</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarkets check to see what sells and then replace it. At least that is the theory. If it were true why would they ever run out of the stuff that we want? I was reminded of this when I tried to buy semi-skimmed filtered milk the other day. It was the only sort of milk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If anyone hasn&#8217;t noticed</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=162</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 25th aniversary of the Bhopal disaster http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8390156.stm It is estimated that 20,000 have died since the accident from gas-related diseases. Another 100,000 to 200,000 people are estimated to have permanent injuries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster]]></description>
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		<title>Local travel</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=158</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lucky to live in a town with excellent buses. The bus company recently won UK Bus Operator of the Year. One of the reasons this company is so good is the real time bus information provided at an increasing number of stops. Now you know how long you have to wait. Not all stops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media’s self obsession</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=156</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines have just suffered a major flood and Samoa has experienced a tsunami. Labour are having their party conference. Why then is the BBC main story ‘Brown loses Sun newspaper backing’? Who cares about this tabloid’s carefully planned campaign? Why is that the most important news item and why is it more important than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard</title>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=154</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slightly baffled when I saw a dog wearing what looked like a 10 year old child&#8217;s stripped t-shirt. I was just thinking how unusual that was, especially given it was one of the hottest days we have had this year, when I overheard the owner talking to another woman: &#8220;Anyway SHE should be ashamed of [...]]]></description>
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