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		<title>Remember, remember, the 5th of November</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As CNN reports, the V for Vendetta-style Guy Fawkes mask has inspired Occupy protesters around the world. CNN points out: Ironically Fawkes, far from being the anti-establishment hero he has come to be seen as in the years since his death, was a monarchist who merely wanted to replace the Anglican king with a Catholic ]]></description>
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		<title>BBC News &#8211; Nudge not enough to change lifestyles &#8211; peers</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/07/bbc-news-nudge-not-enough-to-change-lifestyles-peers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if &#8216;nudge&#8217; were not bad enough: Plans to get people to adopt healthier lifestyles will not work unless the government is more prepared to use legislation, peers believe. via BBC News &#8211; Nudge not enough to change lifestyles &#8211; peers]]></description>
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		<title>Tory MP says HMRC &#8216;menacing&#8217; letters show state is using &#8216;sinister&#8217; psychology &#124; News &#124; Money Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/05/tory-mp-says-hmrc-menacing-letters-show-state-is-using-sinister-psychology-news-money-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 08:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated. A story on Money Marketing, reporting my comments to them on a letter that two of my constituents received from HMRC as a first demand (notwithstanding HMRC&#8217;s claim in the article that it is only sent as a third reminder): A Conservative MP says recent letters from HM Revenue &#38; Customs demanding people pay ]]></description>
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		<title>George ought to help</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/04/george-ought-to-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Samizdata, food for thought: So, here&#8217;s the text of one of HMRC&#8217;s standard letters. My constituents are rightly complaining about them after having been scared witless that they, decent law-abiding individuals and families who had in fact paid, were about to have property seized and sold by the state. Dear Sir/Madam To avoid extra ]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Hewish: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/02/fiction-reveals-truths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher &#8212; Steve My attention was recently drawn to the reduced £13 million funding for State initiatives to provide books to pre-schoolers in the form of Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up. I can sense the reactionary response: Why would any Government withdraw money for children’s books? ]]></description>
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		<title>Private versus Public Nudging</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/01/private-versus-public-nudging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Private versus Public Nudging « Mark Pennington on Pileus: Listening to Professor Thaler I was reminded of the claim made by many socialists in the past – Lenin being perhaps the most prominent – that since private firms routinely engage in ‘planning’ there should not be any concern about the state ‘planning’ on  a society ]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need Big Brother Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/11/big-brother-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something posted by Big Brother Watch on DNA prompted me to glance back at Albert Speer&#8217;s Inside The Third Reich. In the conclusions to this book, the war criminal wrote, referring to his final remarks at Nuremburg: The criminal events of those years were not only an outgrowth of Hitler&#8217;s personality. The extent of the ]]></description>
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		<title>It pleases HMRC to jest</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/it-pleases-hmrc-to-jest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via CentreRight: The Revenue’s power grab: what’s yours is mine first. Just as taxpayers finally lose confidence in the ability of the Revenue to calculate PAYE correctly, HMRC offers to take the matter out of our hands and present us with a fait accompli. The power grab implicit in the latest HMRC proposals – currently under ]]></description>
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		<title>A serious breach of etiquette</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/11/a-serious-breach-of-etiquette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A serious breach of etiquette from The Prisoner: In your heads must still be the remnant of a brain! In your hearts must still be the desire to be a human being again! Shocking. I think I will just go and watch it to make sure. Further reading The Abolition of Man David Cameron, The ]]></description>
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		<title>bella gerens: That’s right, whip the libertarian</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/10/bella-gerens-that%e2%80%99s-right-whip-the-libertarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From bella gerens, an excellent explanation and defence of libertarianism: The truth is that advocates of freedom are found all over the political spectrum, but the only true libertarians are the ones who advocate it at all times in all circumstances, from the bedroom to the wallet – who believe that ‘freedom from’ is the ]]></description>
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