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		<title>The Honours System</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/05/the-honours-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big problem is that politicians, with Knighthoods as with Life Peerages, have devalued these honours in various ways by how they are distributed. The first mistake lies in giving them out as of "right" to public servants, military and civil, once they reach a certain level/grade, this totally destroys any concept of “personal merit” in the award, it is just “buggins turn”. Beyond that, the choice of some people to receive an award is often either 'populist' or to people of questionable merit and therefore of course, the whole thing has become very "political" but also, lacking in any form of transparency in the process.]]></description>
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		<title>True Blue and Other Fantasies</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/true-blue-and-other-fantasies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fact, I suspect that there is a parallel between the General Election of 1992 and that of 2010 except that the result for the incumbent was different in the short term. Although due to the débâcle of the ERM ejection, the Tories had lost their “Good with the Economy” label, the electorate weren't quite sure about trusting Labour so John Major won with a workable but narrow majority that was to be torn apart by the EU issues in the end but, got the Tories re-elected in 1992.]]></description>
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		<title>Self Serving and Pathetic Pleading</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/24/self-serving-and-pathetic-pleading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the total “arrogance” of a post WWII Europe during which most countries failed 'miserably' in any legal context to even uphold the right to breath for their citizens, should these 'artificial institutions' so needed and so lacking then in human conscience, even imagine that they hold sway, clearly nothing has been learned. Pinning the “Rosette of Universal Law” on a donkey, is still a donkey with a rosette. What arrogance !]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/ethical-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herein lies the real problem concerning recruitment. We have a failed Bank that the British taxpayer has had to bailout and we need 'top people' to lead it “from the shadows to the sun lit uplands”, what is that job worth and might that be different from what the 'public expect and if so, are they even half right in their expectations ? In most respects, it is like a 'second husband' taking on a woman and her children from her previous marriage and being told “You may not have sex”, which asks the question, why should he take it on in the first place ?]]></description>
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		<title>The Money in the Wallet and Purse</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/17/the-money-in-the-wallet-and-purse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An independent Scotland that retained Sterling would have its monetary policy being set in London but without the Scottish Parliament having any influence on that policy in anyway. The alternative for an independent Scotland might be for them to join the Euro , if accepted which would be even more restrictive. Has anyone in the SNP ever thought just why the UK hasn't and won't join the Euro ?]]></description>
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		<title>The Survival of the Labour Party</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/15/the-survival-of-the-labour-party/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/15/the-survival-of-the-labour-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposition is always difficult if only because the Government of the day holds all the cards, it is difficult to look anything but rather impotent for most of the time in the public's mind. This is made worse today by the inevitable narrowing of choice as dictated by the current economic situation. In the end though, only change is constant and just like Cameron in opposition had to accept the then accepted wisdom that the economy was doing well under Brown and he would "share the proceeds of growth", so too today Labour has to accept the logic of "cuts" albeit belatedly]]></description>
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		<title>Ending the Union</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/13/ending-the-union/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/13/ending-the-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The support for the individual citizen remains the same whether in Kent, Antrim, Ayrshire or Powys because that over the decades is what being part of the UK is about. It has taken hundreds of years for us to get to this place something the EU can never manage today and won't achieve ever.]]></description>
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		<title>More Than Just Grammar Schools</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/10/more-than-just-grammar-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/10/more-than-just-grammar-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grammar schools are not a universal panacea and I would suggest that the "style" or label you place on any school is irrelevant because all successful schools will have just one ingredient that binds them all apart from good teachers - Parental involvement and commitment, greatness remains the same...]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional Change – Again, How Boring</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/07/constitutional-change-again-how-boring/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/07/constitutional-change-again-how-boring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make the House of Lords elected, even partially elected is foolish because we really don't want another bunch of career politicians on the electoral stomp, far too boring. But more than that, it is highly dangerous because what powers will the Commons cede to the Lords because if the members of the Lords have no powers, why would people bother vote for them ?]]></description>
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		<title>A Proposed Right to Die</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/06/a-proposed-right-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/06/a-proposed-right-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my mind the topic reflects upon a fundamentally flawed and infantile society that refuses to face the reality of mankind's existence both in the past and going forward, as being one of difficulty and pain both mentally and physically. A bit like natural birth being replaced by "C Section" deliveries so let's "top and tail" both life and death, mechanically as a consumer service administered by the NHS !]]></description>
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