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		<title>The Stupid Party</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/08/22/the-stupid-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of yesterday watching the results of the Australian federal election. Some may wonder why such a remote contest would be of interest: my reply is straightforward. The Australians use the Alternative Vote system in electing MPs: their election could be very instructive for countries like Britain which may adopt this method. Furthermore, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Nuclear Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/08/19/a-nuclear-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I had one of the most horrific nightmares I&#8217;ve ever experienced. I dreamed I was in some sort of a control room in which earnest looking operators tended to flickering computer terminals. Beyond them lay a panoramic window which overlooked an open landscape which was mostly sand, interspersed with a few trees. Suddenly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Red Plenty&#8221; by Francis Spufford</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/08/18/review-red-plenty-by-francis-spufford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Red Plenty Francis Spufford. Faber and Faber 2010, Hardcover, 448 pages, &#163;9.00 It&#8217;s rare to see anything brave or daring emerge from a mainstream publisher these days. For the most part, they are inhibited by those who cling more dearly to accounts ledgers than fine literature and as a result are perpetually unprepared to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slavoj Zizek: Living in the End Times</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/08/14/slavoj-zizek-living-in-the-end-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lengthy but illuminating exposition of Zizek&#8217;s latest batch of ideas:]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Generations</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/08/13/losing-generations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CDF</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been nearly a month since I graduated. My life is slowly returning to its normal rhythms, and typical work weeks and work days lay ahead for the foreseeable future. My initial thoughts about moving to America have faded, lost in the incessant drone of talk radio, which I perhaps misguidedly tuned into in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An American Mess</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/07/27/an-american-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CDF</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it was while we were on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt in Paris that my father told me that he and my mother wouldn&#8217;t be visiting Europe in 2011. We were taking a stroll after visiting an exhibition of Spanish art at the Musée Jacquemart-André; they were going to have a wander, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation Daze</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/07/16/graduation-daze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, I am sitting on a futon in Rotherhithe. Just outside my window, the sun is up, and powerful breezes are gusting through the yard. A bird sings a cacophonous tune. To my left, my suitcase, prone on the floor, awaits being refilled with what I&#8217;ve taken out of it before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts and Casualties</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/07/08/cuts-and-casualties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CDF</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I became aware of a horrific case in Peterborough. The local primary care trust, in its infinite wisdom, had left a man (named Terence Burch) who is paralysed from the neck down due to a spinal infection, without the care to which the trust had said he was entitled. His wife Angela, exasperated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to Yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/07/07/farewell-to-yesterday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CDF</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whirledpeas.eu/?p=1821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to predict, but my blog posting may become more sporadic for a time. This is not due to a lack of things to write about; no doubt the worrisome news that is presently streaming out of Whitehall and Westminster will continue to flow unabated. However, I have a lot to do over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better and Worse</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/07/06/better-and-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CDF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandfather liked to tell the following anecdote: one day, a man is walking down a street, when he spots his friend approaching him. Upon closer inspection, the man notices that his buddy has a rubber band around his head. Upon greeting him, the man asks, &#8220;Why do you have a rubber band around your [...]]]></description>
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