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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oh how I love to throw away good food]]></title>
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Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[Every week the finger of public blame points to something new. Last week it 
fixed upon the feckless wastrels of the kitchen, meaning nearly all of us.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Behave, Auntie, you vulgar addled old bat]]></title>
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Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[The BBC is no longer the much loved, if rather wayward, Auntie of old. Auntie 
has changed into a monstrously obese, greedy, demanding, confused and 
destructive old bat. She has traces of her old charm and brilliance; on her 
good days she&#8217;s wonderful. There&#8217;s nobody like her.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[It was worth paying the price of my road rage]]></title>
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<![CDATA[There is no escape. Sooner or later, everyone is brought to it. Last week I 
was subjected to two days of state reeducation in Epping Forest. It wasn&#8217;t 
exactly compulsory, but I was there at the invitation of the police, and it 
was the kind of invitation one doesn&#8217;t lightly refuse; the course bills 
itself as &#8220;an educational alternative to prosecution&#8221;.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Equality obsession puts vulnerable at risk]]></title>
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Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[The prevailing obsession with equality leads sometimes, like many good 
intentions, to cruelty and injustice, not least against people with learning 
disabilities. Last week the newspapers were full of pictures of a 
sweet&#45;faced boy with Down&#8217;s syndrome of about 18, looking much younger, who 
has been so unjustly treated by the police and the procurator fiscal in 
Scotland that, most unusually, the Scottish Crown Office has just apologised 
to his family.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Abu Qatada should stay, but not in comfort]]></title>
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Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[A red mist of rage must have descended on millions of respectable citizens 
last week when the Court of Appeal decided that Abu Qatada, the Jordanian 
Islamist, will be allowed to stay in Britain. Supposedly the right&#45;hand man 
of Osama Bin Laden in Europe and the spiritual leader of Al&#45;Qaeda in Europe, 
convicted in absentia of terrorist offences in his native Jordan, this 
undesirable alien had won his appeal against deportation.]]>	
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