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	<description>Sideways comment on the world</description>
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		<title>Talking to the Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Rachel, I came across the unfortunate story of Natalie who has been misrepresented by the Daily Mail.&#160;Natalie is, unsurprisingly, angry and upset by this. The journalist engaged in a ten minute phone interview and then went to press.

On April 30th just after 3.30pm, I snatched up my phone and bit the bullet. I called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/11/talking-to-the-press/</link>
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		<title>Half a Century; Not Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, I turn fifty. The thought that goes through my mind is; where did all that time go? It seems barely a day or so ago that I was dreading turning forty. At the time, I wrote an introspective for Bikenet, musing on growing older. Now it&#8217;s the big five-o.
My life has been somewhat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/10/half-a-century-not-out/</link>
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		<title>Moron of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC site draws our attention to yet another attempt to put people on a database that will be abused, that will lead to people suffering gross injustice and that appears on the face of it, to have little in the way of safeguards:

Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/08/moron-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Quite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Damian Green

But the time has come, Gordon. Put yourself and us out of this particular piece of misery. Scrap the ID cards scheme now. 

Indeed.





Tags:  authoritarian+control+freaks, identity+cards, NO2ID
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		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/08/quite/</link>
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		<title>Sunglasses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the facile fashion advice dished out by&#8230; well&#8230; facile fashion journos. Today, it&#8217;s advice on sunglasses.

Do I look cool in these? Or do I look a dork?&#8221; Every man has to ask this question about his sunglasses. If he has any sense, he&#8217;ll make sure that he does it in the shop - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/07/sunglasses/</link>
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		<title>CCTV Fails to Slash Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thus goes the headline in today&#8217;s Groan.

Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/06/cctv-fails-to-slash-crime/</link>
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		<title>Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Google has decided that Longrider and Felix Domesticus are both distributing badware. If you search on Google, this&#160;is what you see. These sites&#160;are not distributing badware. Felix Domesticus suffered a corrupted database following a failed upgrade of Wordpress. Otherwise, nothing has changed with the sites.
According to stop badware.org, the reasons for this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/05/google/</link>
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		<title>Stupid, Stupid, Stupid&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seumas Milne in comment is free:

But it&#8217;s also clear that the kind of progressive coalition and policies that Livingstone favoured - on transport, housing, privatisation and redistribution - are a good deal more popular with voters than the rudderless triangulation currently on offer from Gordon Brown.

Having been trounced because they steal from those who earn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/04/stupid-stupid-stupid-3/</link>
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		<title>And Boris Wins London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a decade ago, following the landslide Labour victory, I knew that this day would come. It was inevitable that sooner or later, the party in power would pall with the electorate &#8211; they always do. Of course, at that time, I was unaware just how deeply authoritarian that party would prove to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/03/and-boris-wins-london/</link>
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		<title>Ken Livingstone; Authoritarian Bastard</title>
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The truly egregious Ken Livingstone talks to Computing about the Oyster scheme.

&#8220;We are marvelling at the multiple possibilities of Oyster, but come back here in 10 years&#8217; time and we will have chips inserted under our skin or inside our heads,&#8221; he said.

I&#8217;d like to think that he is joking, but a part of me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2008/05/01/ken-livingstone-authoritarian-bastard/</link>
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