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		<title>Thought for the day: politics, debt and public choice</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/04/thought-for-the-day-politics-debt-and-public-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A joke doing the rounds by email at the moment1:
While walking down the street one day a Member of Parliament is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St Peter at the entrance. &#8216;Welcome to heaven,&#8217; says St Peter, &#8216;Before you settle in, it seems there ]]></description>
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		<title>Churchill&#8217;s Wit</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/churchills-wit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One kind Christmas gift was Churchill&#8217;s Wit: The Definitive Collection. I am particularly savouring this gem (1906):
For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their censure.
I ]]></description>
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		<title>Not rearing pigs</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/not-rearing-pigs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently sent me this celebrated letter on the absurdity of bureaucracy. If you have not seen it, enjoy:

Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
16 July 2009
Dear Secretary of State,
My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for ]]></description>
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		<title>Satire from John Redwood MP » The Finance Director of UK PLC sends out the annual figures</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/satire-from-john-redwood-mp-%c2%bb-the-finance-director-of-uk-plc-sends-out-the-annual-figures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to report our most successful year ever. We made more progress to achieving our twin goals of increasing our losses and building up our levels of debt than ever before. Indeed, I am especially proud to be able to announce that in just two years we will be able to borrow more ]]></description>
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		<title>The Credit Crunch Explained</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/the-credit-crunch-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An explanation of the financial crisis for everyone:
Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Cork. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers &#8211; most of whom are unemployed alcoholics &#8211; to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the ]]></description>
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		<title>Tory Bear T-shirt: Who is Dan Han?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/tory-bear-t-shirt-who-is-dan-han/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/tory-bear-t-shirt-who-is-dan-han/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Hannan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evoking &#8220;Who is John Galt?&#8221; a phrase popularised by the cult novel &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221;, Tory Bear makes available a new T-shirt: &#8220;Who is Dan Han?&#8221;: Tory Bear &#8211; right-wing political gossip: Who is Dan Han?.
 

Get yours here.
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		<title>Keep Calm and Carry On</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/03/keep-calm-and-carry-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports on the poster sweeping the nation in these difficult times:
Nowadays, of course, it would be farmed out to an expensive communications agency. Back in the spring of 1939, it was an anonymous civil servant who was entrusted with finding the slogan for a propaganda poster intended to comfort and inspire the populace ]]></description>
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		<title>Cheer from Noel Coward</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/01/cheer-from-noel-coward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/01/cheer-from-noel-coward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free music &#8211; There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner (1999 Digital Remaster)
    
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		<title>First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista &#8211; The Register</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/01/first-windows-7-beta-puts-fresh-face-on-vista-the-register/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/01/first-windows-7-beta-puts-fresh-face-on-vista-the-register/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone expects release later this year. A leaked briefing paper for OEM vendors suggests that the date when buyers of Windows Vista machines qualify for a free upgrade begins &#8220;for planning purposes&#8221; on July 1, 2009.
via First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista • The Register.
Hold me back!
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		<title>Noel Coward &#8211; &#8220;There are Bad Times Just Around The Corner&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/12/noel-coward-there-are-bad-times-just-around-the-corner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/12/noel-coward-there-are-bad-times-just-around-the-corner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Kennedy cheered us this morning with Noel Coward&#8217;s &#8220;There are Bad Times Just Around The Corner&#8220;:
There are bad times just around the corner
And the outlook&#8217;s absolutely vile,
You can take this from us
That when they Atom bomb us
We are NOT going to tighten our belts and smile smile smile,
We are in such a mess
It couldn&#8217;t ]]></description>
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