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<title>Comment - Columnists - Alice Miles</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Got a few quid for the old rich folk?]]></title>
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Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:30 BST
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<![CDATA[Should a primary school teacher on a salary of &#163;20,000 pay to help a lord or a 
former prime minister settle comfortably into old age? I wonder whether the 
staff whom Gordon Brown met when he visited the assisted housing scheme in 
Plymouth to launch his big review of long&#45;term care financing would welcome 
being told it is only fair that they contribute to Tony and Cherie Blair's 
retirement nursing in future. Perhaps Lady Thatcher's, too. (It is one of 
the oddities of this debate being led by the Prime Minister that it doesn't 
apply to him &#45; being Scottish, he will receive long&#45;term care free anyway.)]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Gordon Brown: it's Burma, not bins]]></title>
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Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:45 BST
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<![CDATA[I bet the real Gordon Brown has, this week, been more concerned about the 
Burmese than about &#8220;bin bullies&#8221;, as the Tories call them. No 10 appears to 
have briefed various newspapers that &#8220;bin taxes&#8221; are to be, er, binned, 
because voters didn't like the idea. Which means all of us will pay more 
council tax as landfill fines increase, subsidising those who refuse to 
recycle properly or do not bother to fling their excess plastic packaging 
back at the supermarkets.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Hurrah&#33; Boo&#33; It&amp;#39;s the Ken and Boris show]]></title>
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:19 BST
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<![CDATA[First, a test: which of the London mayoral candidates has proposed the 
following policies? (a) a Central London cycle&#45;hire scheme, (b) a ban on 
bottled water in the GLA; (c) new trees. Or these? (a) new trees; (b) a 
cycle hire scheme (c) encouraging restaurants to offer tap water instead of 
bottled.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Great evil took place in that cellar]]></title>
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:44 BST
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<![CDATA[The most touching detail of those horrible events in Austria has been the 
pictures of childish decorations in the cellar bathroom. Those homely 
touches are signs of hope, a reminder that human beings are capable of great 
love as well as of great evil. For Elisabeth to try to improve the 
environment for her children, to show them that there are good things in the 
world as well as bad, to tell a little boy who has never seen them, about 
the Sun and stars and flowers, a snail, an elephant, an octopus &#45; that is 
love. And it is hope: she must have believed that one day her children would 
see those things, that they wouldn't spend their entire lives in that 
miserable cellar, witnessing their mother's torture. It is a triumph of the 
human spirit. Elisabeth Fritzl is a remarkable woman.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Stop pandering to stay&#45;at&#45;home mums]]></title>
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:11 BST
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<![CDATA[I remember an acquaintance&amp;#44; let us call her Victoria&amp;#44; bemoaning the fact that she couldn&amp;#39;t possibly afford to work part&#45;time after the birth of her child&amp;#59; couldn&amp;#39;t afford to lose a fifth of her salary &#45; about &#163;15&amp;#44;000 &#45; without her life falling apart&amp;#46;]]>	
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