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<title><![CDATA[The age of personal vitriolic abuse]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Do we live in an age of hatred&amp;#63; Or has the language of political insult simply become more extreme&amp;#63; Tap the words &#8220;I hate Gordon Brown&#8221; into Google&amp;#44; and it comes up with 1&amp;#44;490&amp;#44;000 entries&amp;#46; David Cameron rates 611&amp;#44;000&amp;#44; Nick Clegg is well behind on 167&amp;#44;000 and Alex Salmond limps in on 71&amp;#44;000&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Wendy Alexander reveals gap on notion of Scotland going it alone]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Addressing the Labour Party conference in 1999 Tony Blair said that devolution 
in Scotland would guarantee the future of the Union. &#8220;I tell you,&#8221; he said, 
&#8220;that devolution will be, and is, the salvation of the United Kingdom.&#8221;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Alcohol abuse: remember Gin Lane]]></title>
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Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:51 BST
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<![CDATA[The gin craze that caused havoc among the poor in 18th&#45;century London was a government creation&amp;#46; Selling more gin helped to prop up grain prices&amp;#46; Encouraging people to drink was&amp;#44; therefore&amp;#44; part of an economic plan&amp;#46; And it worked&amp;#46; Daniel Defoe applauded the growth of the distilling industry and suggested it would lead to a new era of prosperity&amp;#46; What they had not expected was that it would also rot the moral fibre of the working class&amp;#46; By the time Defoe changed his mind and urged new laws to curb the sale of gin&amp;#44; it was too late&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[A grin goes a long way in politics]]></title>
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:45 BST
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<![CDATA[The picture of Gordon Brown that best defines his struggles in office is the one that shows him&amp;#44; brow furrowed&amp;#44; head buried in a sheaf of papers&amp;#44; the weight of anxiety hanging almost palpably round his shoulders&amp;#46; The picture that best defines his fellow Scot&amp;#44; Alex Salmond&amp;#44; is the one &amp;#40;of many&amp;#41; that shows him wearing his trademark&amp;#44; cheeky grin&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[No&#33; Not another immigration debate&#33;]]></title>
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:49 BST
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<![CDATA[Enoch Powell used to complain that his fateful speech on immigration 40 years ago had been widely misinterpreted&amp;#46; Phrases like &#8220;rivers of blood&#8221;&amp;#44; &#8220;strangers in their own country&#8221; and colourful quotes like &#8220;the black man will have the whip hand over the white man&#8221; had&amp;#44; he claimed&amp;#44; been taken out of context&amp;#46; What had been intended as a powerful warning about mass immigration had been turned instead into a racist rant&amp;#46;]]>	
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