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		<title>POWER 2010 and Conservative Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[POWER 2010 must be pleased with themselves, as the 4th highest rated idea in its campaign so far is one which is not unlikely to make it into law, as it is something the Conservatives were considering back in 2007.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=209&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Up, round II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[...Open Up dearly need to speak to some MPs who have defied a three-line whip -- such as, say, Tom Harris. To claim that the immediate response to a defiance of a three-line whip is temporary expulsion from the party is nonsense. It can happen, but it's dependent on many other factors -- only when party leaders are at the end of their tether, such as in John Major's case over Maastricht, will they even want to consider it, as it could breed some pretty dangerous rebels.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=205&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One for the Handbook (literally, for once)</title>
		<link>http://dingdongalistic.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/one-for-the-handbook-literally-for-once/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["One for the Handbook" refers to a new policy idea I have thought up, and so literally wish to enter into the (virtual) Political Handbook, rather than merely blog about.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=202&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My questions to and answers from Vernon Bogdanor on Primaries:</title>
		<link>http://dingdongalistic.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/my-questions-to-and-answers-from-vernon-bogdanor-on-primaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ put three questions to Professor Vernon Bogdanor concerning Open Primaries. Here are the questions, with his answers...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=196&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A citizens&#8217; convention is the last thing we need.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the ever-ongoing debate over constitutional reform in recent weeks, and one thing has struck me very strongly, is that despite a whole load of interesting and diverse ideas, advocates of reform seem to be susceptible to one idea in particular, one that strikes me as going against the history of successful British [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=193&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Collins and the latest column response</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should really keep a notebook of all the fatuous columns in the Times that I respond to &#8212; or try to, and definitely wish to &#8212; on this blog. Perhaps that way I could find it easier to filter out the dross and not be bothered by it. Phil Collins, writing with apparent authority in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=190&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Markets and Property Rights 2: Education, Society and Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having now demonstrated the need for government within a Free Market Society, the inherent conflict between absolute property rights and free markets, and the self-terminating and self-contradictory nature of both concepts in the previous article; I now feel it might be entertaining to move on to an area of more practical policy: education. The liberating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=175&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of Anarchism</title>
		<link>http://dingdongalistic.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/in-defence-of-anarchism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, I&#8217;m not a big fan of Anarchism. I consider it either to be vulgar, immature right-wing politics for those who want to be anti-establishment without donning a Che Guevara T-shirt, or hopelessly deluded left-wing politics for those who have a hopelessly utopian vision of fundamental human motivations. I&#8217;m happy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=169&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and the ways in which my mind doesn&#8217;t get on with it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. Despite having always regarded myself as "something of a democrat" -- which means... democratic, just not too much of a good thing...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=166&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before I put on the gloves, a word in defence of Dan Hannan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, I am very scathing about Dan Hannan in general. He was vaunted for what was, in my opinion, quite a humble pot-shot across the bow of Gordon Brown's ever-sinking ship, and ever since then people have been more inclined to listen to his tastelessly neo-liberal views, judging them not on their merit but on the skill of Hannan's rhetoric, which is undeniably good. But I find myself frustrated that not only did Daniel Finkelstein find it necessary to defend Dan Hannan on the grounds that what he said was "unconventional", but he subsequently thought it necessary to criticise him on even thinner grounds than he defended him, for citing Enoch Powell in a way the rises above the historical stereotype.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dingdongalistic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872642&amp;post=163&amp;subd=dingdongalistic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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