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		<title>Remembrance Sunday is not a time to forget</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/11/07/remembrance-sunday-is-not-a-time-to-forget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generation Ed&#8230;or just plain Millibland?</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/09/28/generation-ed-or-just-plain-millibland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Well he may have beaten his big brother to the Labour leadership but judging by his first performance as leader at the Labour Party Conference today, it really doesn&#8217;t feel like Milliband E is ready to lead the country any time soon. We may be 5 years away from the next General Election, but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality Commission hope for the lost generation</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/09/28/equality-commission-hope-for-the-lost-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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If you didn&#8217;t already, it&#8217;s worth getting a look at the front page of this morning&#8217;s Bel Tel.
Two headline stories that should make us all think about what&#8217;s happening in our society as Peter and Martin go across to meet Gorgeous George to plead our case ahead of October&#8217;s spending cuts announcements.
The Lost Generation &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£1.2bn worth of stark choices for Northern Ireland public sector</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/26/1-2bn-worth-of-stark-choices-for-northern-ireland-public-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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“The harsh reality is that Northern Ireland must raise more income or cost less to run, there is no alternative to this stark choice”.
A report compiled for NICVA by Oxford Economics, ‘Cutting Carefully’, has said at least £1.2bn would have to be saved from public spending in Northern Ireland between now and 2015 to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP&#8217;s Tony Hayward gets his life back&#8230;and a £600k pension</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/26/bps-tony-hayward-gets-his-life-back-and-a-600k-pension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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You wouldn’t have his job for a pension, or would you?
On the day it was announced that BP chief executive Tony Hayward will get an immediate annual pension worth about £600,000 and a year&#8217;s salary plus benefits worth more than £1m ($930,000) when he leaves in October for ‘special projects’ in Russia, it’s not so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regeneration can look pretty ugly Through the Viewfinder</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/20/regeneration-can-look-pretty-ugly-through-the-viewfinder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Tremendous article from the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society&#8217;s Rita Harkin in this morning&#8217;s News Letter as she railed against the &#8216;regeneration&#8217; of our towns and cities and what she calls &#8216;these government-backed mammoth retail-led schemes which are supposed to signal the rebirth of urban areas&#8230;but more often than not stamp a clumsy big elephantine foot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Ardoyne rioters be conscripted into the army?</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/19/should-ardoyne-rioters-be-conscripted-into-the-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Just saw a recent suggestion on Nick Clegg&#8217;s Your Freedom website mentioned in my blog post on 1 July 2010.
Latest idea under &#8216;Restoring Civil Liberties&#8217;?
Conscription for delinquent youths!
http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/restoring-civil-liberties/conscription-for-delinquent-youths
What a brilliant idea&#8230;and so simple.
Young people on the streets in Ardoyne, you&#8217;ve been warned!
For more brilliant ideas, go to www.yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk
There is some priceless stuff on there but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Marmite. Bankrupt BNP?</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/19/love-marmite-bankrupt-bnp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/19/love-marmite-bankrupt-bnp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Well it looks like it&#8217;s finally happened.
According to reports in the weekend&#8217;s press, Nick Griffin&#8217;s BNP is facing financial ruin after featuring Marmite in its election broadcast. The party has been hit with a massive claim &#8211; up to £170,000 over its TV stunt in which the BNP leader was pictured beside a huge jar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Society, or just a Big Con?</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/19/the-big-society-or-just-a-big-con/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/19/the-big-society-or-just-a-big-con/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;I think we&#8217;re onto a really big idea, a really exciting future for our country&#8221;.
David Cameron today launched his &#8220;big society&#8221; concept in Liverpool of all places, with among other things a suggestion that community groups should be able to run post offices, libraries, transport services and shape housing projects.
He also announced radical plans to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer of sectarianism?</title>
		<link>http://www.socialgandhi.com/2010/07/15/summer-of-sectarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Have you seen these buses flying round Belfast City Centre over the last couple of days. Think they&#8217;re part of an anti-sectarianism/anti-social campaign from Belfast City Council/OFMDFM/DSD.
Say no to sectarianism.
Say no to crime.
Keep safe this summer.


Don&#8217;t know how many buses made it as far as North Belfast, but the campaign&#8217;s obviously working?

Summer has certainly arrived&#8230;and it could [...]]]></description>
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