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		<title>NHS management pays over the odds with tax payers&#8217; money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Telegraph article reported that the NHS is paying “extortionate” prices for basic computer equipment and services. It showed that the NHS buys computer equipment at an average 28% more than wholesale prices. This is a shocking misuse of tax payers’ money and shows that the state is often unable to purchase even the ]]></description>
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		<title>A massive failure of journalism is being corrected</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via It’s austerity all right – but not of the kind we actually need, City A.M.&#8217;s Allister Heath makes his case: It has long been a theme of this column that the government and its critics alike have exaggerated the extent of the government’s belt-tightening. The coalition is doing this to try and reassure the ]]></description>
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		<title>William Hague: “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard,” but hard work needs honest money.</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/hague-on-work-ethic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/hague-on-work-ethic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 14:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Telegraph, William Hague tells the Government&#8217;s business critics to stop complaining and work hard to deliver jobs. However, Mr Hague forgets that a day&#8217;s hard work is rewarded with a day&#8217;s pay: if that pay is in a money which someone else is producing at near zero cost, the value of hard work is undermined. ]]></description>
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		<title>Two videos celebrating 15 years of the Monetary Policy Committee</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/two-videos-celebrating-15-years-of-the-monetary-policy-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/two-videos-celebrating-15-years-of-the-monetary-policy-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SaveOurSavers are celebrating 15 years of the Monetary Policy Committee with the following video. It&#8217;s rather too harsh on the Governor: effective central planning of the price of money is just as impossible as the planning of other prices and surely more counterproductive. That is, the Monetary Policy Committee are trying to do something which ]]></description>
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		<title>The UK&#8217;s commitment on clean water for the world&#8217;s poorest</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/the-uks-commitment-on-clean-water-for-the-worlds-poorest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/the-uks-commitment-on-clean-water-for-the-worlds-poorest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Government announced at the landmark Sanitation and Water for All meeting in Washington DC that they are doubling the UK&#8217;s commitment on clean water and sanitation, made last year. The meeting indicated that 167 children die every hour from diarrhoea, the vast majority of which is due to a lack of access to ]]></description>
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		<title>The latest Government stance on Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/the-latest-government-stance-on-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Foreign Secretary launched the Government’s Human Rights and Democracy Report. The Report is a comprehensive look at the human rights work of the Foreign &#38; Commonwealth Office around the world. The Foreign Secretary has said that 2011 will stand out as a positive year for human rights and democracy. He went on ]]></description>
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		<title>Local NHS leaders must heed the call to keep Wycombe&#8217;s Emergency Medical Centre open 24 hours a day</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/emergency-medical-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendly Societies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am calling on local NHS leaders to heed the clear call from the public in Wycombe to provide 24-hour emergency cover at Wycombe Hospital. Councillor Tony Green&#8217;s petition to Bucks County Council has now passed the threshold to initiate a debate on the Emergency Medical Centre at Wycombe Hospital. The number of signatures has ]]></description>
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		<title>Help cut business regulation</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/help-cut-business-regulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/help-cut-business-regulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a way of supporting The Red Tape Challenge, the Government has created a new campaign called Focus on Enforcement. It will focus on working to ensure that we do not gold plate EU law and that we avoid British business being disadvantaged in relation to EU competitors. The Government want you to tell them about ]]></description>
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		<title>The EU: who governs whom?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/the-eu-who-governs-whom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/the-eu-who-governs-whom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via France election: Germany rules out reworking EU&#8217;s &#8216;fiskalpakt&#8217; &#8211; Telegraph. Mr Hollande has called for a shift in strategy toward more growth-oriented measures including more public spending. But Mr Seibert said Angela Merkel would not accept &#8220;deficit spending&#8221; to feed economic expansion, and believed in &#8220;growth through structural reforms&#8221; such as reducing the cost of ]]></description>
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		<title>The Launch of Big Society Capital</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/05/the-launch-of-big-society-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government has recently launched Big Society Capital to help finance social action in the UK. It will start with a fund of up to £600m that includes £400m from dormant bank accounts (about which I have reservations but that&#8217;s past) and up to £200m from the four main UK high street banks. If you ]]></description>
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