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<title><![CDATA[Muscled Madonna is an icon for these chippy times]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Let&#8217;s not get carried away. Girls are still in the minority where violence is 
concerned. The simple fact is that the more angry, feral children there are 
on the streets, the more likely that some of them will be girls. There is no 
mass movement of uncontrollable harpies with knives in their thongs, though 
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<title><![CDATA[Cherie Blair: enough to make you weep]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Don&amp;#39;t go reading modern political memoirs in a heatwave&amp;#46; Your jaw falls open all the time&amp;#44; and mosquitoes fly in&amp;#46; Stick to Jilly Cooper for raunch and emotional dysfunction&amp;#44; and Healey&amp;#44; Jenkins and the big boys for insight into government&amp;#46; The witterings of minor figures &#45; Edwina Currie&amp;#44; Alan Clark &#45; are reasonably entertaining&amp;#44; and Clark indeed threw odd beams of light into the broom cupboards of power&amp;#46; But the current outbreak of Memoir Wars is different&amp;#58; quick on the draw&amp;#44; savagely disloyal&amp;#44; dangerously close to the centre&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Deep breath... bawl out a rebel song]]></title>
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Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:57 BST
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<title><![CDATA[Abolish postal voting on demand. Now]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Almost nothing else matters&amp;#46; Not as urgently&amp;#44; anyway&amp;#46; Yesterday&amp;#39;s exhaustive 100&#45;page report from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust ought to put every minister&amp;#44; editor&amp;#44; campaigner and citizen on red alert&amp;#46; For it is about democracy&amp;#44; and from democracy flows government&amp;#44; whose actions affect everything that keeps us safe&amp;#58; law&amp;#44; security&amp;#44; policing&amp;#44; prosperity&amp;#44; fair dealing&amp;#44; relations with the world&amp;#46; When rot affects the democratic process the ship of state has a hole in its hull&amp;#46; It is an emergency&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[An ideal picture of British character]]></title>
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Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:08 BST
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<![CDATA[Tomorrow is St George&amp;#39;s Day&amp;#46; And Shakespeare&amp;#39;s birthday&amp;#46; And&amp;#44; things being a bit up the creek&amp;#44; no doubt ministers will return to their theme of Defining Britishness&amp;#44; cobbling up mottos and oaths and thoughtlessly annexing all virtues &amp;#40;democracy&amp;#44; tolerance&amp;#44; humour&amp;#41; on our behalf while skating over our equally obvious vices&amp;#46; Nostalgia lovers will riff about long shadows on cricket grounds and old maids bicycling to Holy Communion&amp;#46; Cocooners will stay at home watching Marple and Morse while the rain beats on the windowpanes&amp;#46;]]>	
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