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	<title>Hannah Swithinbank &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Talking About Our Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/05/12/talking-about-our-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the ongoing negotiations to settle the hung parliament that was the result of the General Election has been really interesting. Not just because it’s been some kind of long-running political soap opera, but because it feels in a lot of ways like I’ve been watching my PhD thesis dance out of the Roman Republic <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/05/12/talking-about-our-constitution/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Boris: &#8220;LibDems aren&#8217;t really British&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/04/19/boris-libdems-arent-really-british/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What crouton of substance did Clegg offer last Thursday, in the opaque minestrone of waffle? He wants to get rid of Trident. Great! So Lib Dem foreign policy means voluntarily resigning from the UN Security Council, abandoning all pretensions to world influence, and sub-contracting our nuclear deterrent to France! They are a bunch of euro-loving <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/04/19/boris-libdems-arent-really-british/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In which I am having problems deciding who to vote for.</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/04/13/in-which-i-am-having-problems-deciding-who-to-vote-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#ge2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, until recently I was registered to vote in North East Fife, where Sir Menzies Campbell is happily ensconced as LibDem MP.&#160; I like Sir Ming generally, and the LibDems generally, and if I’d stayed registered up there I would have merrily mailed in my vote for him, and it wouldn’t have made any difference <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/04/13/in-which-i-am-having-problems-deciding-who-to-vote-for/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Digitial Economy Bill and Me</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/04/08/the-digitial-economy-bill-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[#debill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/?p=1926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, last night, the Digital Economy Bill &#8211; or #debill, as it&#8217;s known on twitter &#8211; passed its Third Reading in the House of Commons and goes to (in this case, back to) the House of Lord before becoming all Official.  And I sit here not-so-quietly fuming.   There are so many reasons to dislike this <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/04/08/the-digitial-economy-bill-and-me/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Before which, I am rubbish at thinking of a title.</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/03/22/before-which-i-am-rubbish-at-thinking-of-a-title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing that thing you do when you realise you&#8217;re leaving a place soon &#8211; when you start noting that it&#8217;s probably going to be your last time at this place or that place, or eating here and drinking their, the last of this kind of Kölsch, and so on and so forth.  And I <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/03/22/before-which-i-am-rubbish-at-thinking-of-a-title/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>in danger of becoming self-congratulatory?</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/03/21/in-danger-of-becoming-self-congratulatory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/03/21/in-danger-of-becoming-self-congratulatory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYU Institute of Journalism have released the nominations list for their &#8216;Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade&#8217;. It&#8217;s a good list &#8211; but then I would say that, because I&#8217;ve read/watched a chunk of them.     I read Andrew Sullivan and Nate Silver pretty much every day, I follow Ezra Klein on twitter <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2010/03/21/in-danger-of-becoming-self-congratulatory/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ok, so, #Trafigura</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/10/15/ok-so-trafigura/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/10/15/ok-so-trafigura/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/?p=1564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I want to write something about this, because not only was it a pretty big deal in the big picture of British media and politics, it felt like a pretty big deal for me and my engagement shifting from interested and theoretical to faintly active (I mean, it&#8217;s not like twittering uses <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/10/15/ok-so-trafigura/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Engage</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/10/08/failure-to-engage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/?p=1559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson&#8217;s latest blog post is interesting. Turns out even politicians and party members don&#8217;t show up to listen to a roll of speeches at conventions. Colour me surprised. Even at academic conventions the best part of panels is often the Q &#38; A session. But here&#8217;s the problem &#8211; if even <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/10/08/failure-to-engage/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More seriously</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/03/16/more-seriously/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/03/16/more-seriously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/blog/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All this increasing the tax on alcohol and/or pay by the unit stuff it rubbish. Yes, it would be nice to move British drinking culture away from binges towards sensible, relaxed drinking where you can still walk in a straight line when you go home, and don&#8217;t vomit. However, is making people pay more really <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/03/16/more-seriously/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Things I discovered last year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/01/02/things-i-discovered-last-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/01/02/things-i-discovered-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/blog/?p=1105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. There&#8217;s tension involved in travel, even when you go on your own. The &#8216;why am I here&#8217;, &#8216;what&#8217;s my purpose in life&#8217;, am I just jumping through tourist hoops&#8217; kind of tension. I think it happens every trip, and yet, when you come back you just sort-of forget about it. So, just learn that <a href="http://www.hannahswithinbank.com/2009/01/02/things-i-discovered-last-year/"> <b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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