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		<title>An Anguished Cry &#8211; Reflections On Black Mirror</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Mirror]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night’s edition of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror was one of the most powerful and thoroughly depressing things I have seen on television in a long while. Subtitled ’15 Million Merits’ it depicted a bleak future where humans peddled on exercise bikes – seemingly to no real purpose – to earn ‘merits’ which were then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=128&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merton Tories, I Don&#8217;t Want Your Faux Sympathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Shears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Kirby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been taking anti-depressants for nine months and for the first half of this year was attending regular sessions at the Cambridge University Counselling Service. I want you to remember that as you read the following. For a storm is brewing in the teacup of Merton local politics. On Saturday Baroness Warsi gave an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=123&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rioting With Plato</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Riots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It is only the thymotic man, the man of anger who is jealous of his own dignity and the dignity of his fellow citizens, the man who feels that his worth is constituted by something more than the complex set of desires that make up his physical existence &#8211; it is this man alone who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=120&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merton Tories Caught Out Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tory Myths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received a leaflet from Merton&#8217;s Tories viciously attacking the Merton Park Independents (my ward&#8217;s three councillors upon whom Labour rely for their control of the council). Today, I received a copy of an email from the Independents refuting all of the allegations. Read on, it&#8217;s fairly damning: Dear Resident, As you know, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=117&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware The IMF Bringing Praise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deficit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UK budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund is a very interesting organisation. Ostensibly the neutral, economic experts of the world, their endorsement carries political clout, so much so that many government’s will do almost anything for it and, once secured, will parade it about as a symbol of their credibility (in opposition to their opponents’ presumed lack of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=113&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Pickles &#8211; Ask a difficult question, get abused</title>
		<link>http://leftturnuk.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/eric-pickles-ask-a-difficult-question-get-abused/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I went to the Cambridge Union to see Eric Pickles speak, I had been warned not to. I had told my father that he was coming asked if he, as an employee of the soon-to-be-abolished Audit Commission, had anything he would like me to raise. He told me to stay away, that all I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=110&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merton&#8217;s Tories taking credit for council budget&#8230;which they voted against</title>
		<link>http://leftturnuk.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/mertons-tories-taking-credit-for-council-budget-which-they-voted-against/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;CONSERVATIVES DELIVER COUNCIL TAX FREEZE&#8221; proclaimed the deadline of the Merton Conservatives&#8217; &#8216;inTouch&#8217; leaflet, which claims that last month&#8217;s decision to freeze Merton&#8217;s council tax was due to the efforts of the Tory party. The leaflet contained a quote from Tory leader Cllr Debbie Shears&#8221; &#8220;Merton Council has only been able to freeze council tax [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=107&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s Odd Assumptions About Higher Education</title>
		<link>http://leftturnuk.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/camerons-odd-assumptions-about-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a look at this quote from Cameron in an interview with the Daily Mail: ‘I was talking to some factory workers about this today. I asked them: “Do you think it is right that your taxes are going to educate my children and your boss’s children? If you want high-quality expanding universities, which we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=100&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Cambridge Occupation</title>
		<link>http://leftturnuk.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/a-very-cambridge-occupation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the eleven days up to Monday 6th December, students of the University of Cambridge occupied the University Combination Room in the Old Schools Building, the central administration building of the university. The UCR is a large common room and, as news of the occupation spread, the original occupiers, who had strolled into the building [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=94&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, Mr McKeon, what exactly do you do at university?</title>
		<link>http://leftturnuk.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/so-mr-mckeon-what-exactly-do-you-do-at-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjmckeon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I may speak personally for a minute&#8230; I am often asked what I&#8217;m doing at university and, as a joke, I often reply &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m playing rugby and drinking and in my spare time I&#8217;m doing a History degree,&#8221; (humour is not my strong suit, you may have noticed, and this is the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftturnuk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8750355&amp;post=91&amp;subd=leftturnuk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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