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		<title>Reflections on the barking mad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation in Iran is simply stated. The Iranians have oil. They also have a nuclear development programme. Whether this is for peaceful purposes or otherwise is beside the point. The Iranians also exercise a tight control of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategically important waterway between the Gulf of Persia and the Gulf of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you having trouble getting insurance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, sitting in my rocking chair with my knitting and minding my own business, when this voice comes over the television, asking ‘Are you having trouble getting insurance? If you are between the ages of twenty and eighty you cannot be turned down. Just a few simple questions will be asked and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black slaves and white slaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I entered Saudi Arabia was in the late 1940s, which dates me I know, but we do have to be truthful about these things. There was no blacktop on the desert then, but the process was well underway when next I visited in the early 1970s. I mention this because construction was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common cause with Artistic Director Nicolas Kent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the vast pantheon of the performing arts in the west, particularly London, the name of Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre, stands out &#8211; for me, it is his exploration of the nuclear bomb. To this end he has staged a number of controversial plays on the theme of nuclear weaponry. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those lovely paramedics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here am I, lying in a hospital bed, calm and sedate as a kipper in a box. Three days have passed since an event that brought the fire, rescue, blood wagon and paramedics to the dwelling, all within two minutes of being called. The passage of time is like the Bellman’s map of the ocean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocritical double standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada signed numerous agreements during his visit to China in the company of a large political entourage and a train of corporate heads and industrialists. Hailed by some as a coup de chance, a magnificent stroke of luck as well as political expertise, the contracts negotiated included the export of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That’s quite enough, thank you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not to be vulgar or boorish or discourteous, it is worthwhile asking all those who, for want of imagination, originality or creativity, persist in sending me the same puerile comment day after day to please discontinue the practice. It is understandable to be asked once, even twice in succession, if I ‘ever run into any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Priom Minista of Orstraylya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to our downunder correspondent, the incumbent Prime Minister of that remarkable antipodean land was born in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. Wales and, with her family, migrated to Adelaide, Australia, in 1966. Equally, according to the same reliable correspondent, Adelaide is a thriving, well-educated, well-spoken and socially well-developed community. Ms Gillard attended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the preference for a dory over a waterbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moment anyone utters the phrase ‘It’s the God’s honest truth!’ my suspicions on the veracity of what the speaker is about to tell me is to be held in some doubt. In all good conscience, however, this sense of distrust does not apply to Newfoundlanders to whom this appeal to the deity is as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short history of tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversation with a friend, an orthopedic surgeon of repute and Indian heritage with whom one enjoyed discussing any subject that took our fancy there arose the subject of conquest of Imperial India. ‘Imperial’, that is, because we spoke of the period of the British Raj when Pakistan, Kashmir, Bangladesh and India (as it exists [...]]]></description>
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