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	<description>Mainly Political, Right of Centre and Personal, not Party Political</description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform and Change]]></category>
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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>Self Serving and Pathetic Pleading</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/24/self-serving-and-pathetic-pleading/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/24/self-serving-and-pathetic-pleading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anglosphere]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3395</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/ethical-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Interests]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3391</guid>
		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3370</guid>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[A United Kingdom]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3364</guid>
		<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>The Nature of Leadership</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/02/the-nature-of-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In one sense we seem to be judging present day Politicians in this “warrior leader” mould when in all reality, it long ceased to exist, the last English King to anywhere close to this model being Henry Tudor (VII) who took the Crown from Richard III. Since that time and for all the fuss, whether King or Parliament, all leadership is constrained by the “system” and Prime Ministers are at best “Chairmen of the Board.”]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps the Reality of British Antipathy to the EU</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/25/perhaps-the-reality-of-british-antipathy-to-the-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/25/perhaps-the-reality-of-british-antipathy-to-the-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[....interesting articles to read because of themselves, they reveal and underlying thrust and direction which is totally alien to British perceptions and the very wide gulf is not one that could “bridged” in any kind of negotiations. To want out of the EU is not to be anti European, it is merely to recognise that it is not an organisation that we in the UK will likely ever fit into....]]></description>
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		<title>Calm Down Dear&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/11/settle-down-dear/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/11/settle-down-dear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course as nothing was achieved inside the Eurozone to change anything, the British Veto and it being a country outside of the Euro was irrelevant, the 'Markets' will decide and pounce when they please on a Eurozone that has abrogated responsibility for the value of its currency to the 'Markets' alone without any political leadership or direction from the totally incompetent French and German Leadership.]]></description>
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		<title>Truth and Lies in Politics</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/03/truth-and-lies-in-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/03/truth-and-lies-in-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron is caught between his LibDem partners who were always bottom licking Euro Fanatics and his Right Wing backbenchers who are the complete opposite. His personal aim was to avoid having to deal with the EU in any meaningful way during this Parliament but circumstances in the Eurozone have thrust this upon him.]]></description>
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		<title>Top Gear Bollocks</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/02/top-gear-bollocks/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/02/top-gear-bollocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clarkson is a 51 year old buffoon with "previous", he is not and never has been rated as a "serious expert" on anything social or political. Even Top Gear as a programme format is escapist, boys toys in its whole content. You don't watch the programme to get an “in depth analysis” on some boringly frugal car that most of us are condemned to drive out of necessity.]]></description>
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